X-Stitch Xpress!

This originally came out of a LiveJournal meme in which I participated. Reposted here because I'll probably be dwelling on these things at length, in other posts.

Needlework: Needlework to me is a contemplative practice.

It is beauty in being and becoming.

It is magic in form and function.

It is a place and a space where I am at one with myself, still in my center. It is privacy and freedom to think my own thoughts in that privacy.

It is... continuity. With each stitch I take I am continuing a tradition begun by distant ancestresses I can scarcely imagine. I am linked back to all those women through this working we share, their stitches living on in me and all my stitchy-sisters today and in tomorrows to come.

Needlework may be other things to other people, but that's what it is to me.