Sunday marked Day 10 of my 100 Day Stitch Book project. I should have spent my “15 minutes of daily stitching” to finish up my second composition, but I was compelled to start a new page. It’s difficult to focus on something as relaxing and quiet as hand stitching when the world is screaming.
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| New book page for the 100 Day Stitch Book. |
The violence in our country weighs heavily. It’s impossible to ignore how these heart wrenching acts are tearing at the fabric of our country. Families ripped apart. Communities living in fear. The damage isn’t abstract. It’s felt—in bodies, homes, communities, in the future.
This new book page may be out of sequence, but it’s stitched as a form of witnessing, and perhaps speaking out through fabric and thread—“Enough! We’ve had enough.”
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| “Enough!” |
Each fabric scrap is a fragment that the chaos has created. Each stitch is an act of hope for repair. What does repair mean… how long will it take… and how do we bear the cost? I don’t know. Thread can mend, bind things together; but it also shows the seams—the places where the division was.
I’m continuing with my 2026 stitch book—each day, a stitch at a time. This page is not as light-hearted or seem to fit cohesively with the other pages, but neither is the world right now. The Stitch Book project is a record of time spent… but it also documents the days in which we are living.
