Book of poems - with my heart in it :)

[Lizzy]

Agi thats lovely

[Busy_B]

[burgundyice]

This is lovely, I like the lettering style!
I think stitching lines from your favourite poems is perfect for a literature teacher!

Louise

[Nachstenliebe]

Will they be sad because all the lines are sad? Maybe a good rereading needs to be done to find some uplifting ones?
Faith

[agi]

I have so many favourite poems... but lately all that come to my mind are sad... it's this time of my life, it seems. It will pass, I am sure - but I feel I have to give way to this sadness to be able to get rid of it - if it makes any sense.

[Busy_B]

I think it makes perfect sense, Agi. I know that I've found holding everything in or trying to put on a happy front will eventually catch up to me.

[Slinky]

Lovely work Agi.
The fabric looks really fine. What count did you use?

[charmagne_capalad]

Really beautiful, Agi!

Our emotions really goes with our stitching...I know everything has it's season...and this time of sadness will eventually pass...

You're a good person, Agi....Wishing you happy thoughts during this season...(((hugs)))

[Sarah Gixxer]

It's beautiful, Agi, lovely words. I think it's a great idea to stitch some of your favourite poems with a motif - hope to see more here soon!

[agi]

Lovely work Agi.
The fabric looks really fine. What count did you use?

Thank you, all.

Slinky, it's 28 count linen - it was a piece that was left from my Ink Circles BoINK project - and I really liked it with the black and blue thread - but it was difficult to hide thread ends behind it.

[SusanF]

I love the idea of making a series of these Agi. How about making them into cushions for around the house?

[Serinde]

Just caught up with this thread. Lovely work, as always, Agi. And it's a really good idea to put together a series, and one that might be useful to chart properly... you can't be the only one who might want to stitch these designs. I can imagine a whole "international" series of these in lots of languages.

The verses that come to mind now might be sad, but that will probably change over time. And a therapist would probably say something like "on you go!" It's exactly like singing sad songs. Perversely, they help you to feel happier. Something to do with someone else articulating exactly the way you feel in a way you cannot do for yourself perhaps. (Does that make sense? And why do I think of Joni Mitchell?)

[agi]

Thank you, Serinde!

I think I know what you mean - so often do I feel nowadays: "how on earth did that poet know back then what I would feel now?" Which is good, because it puts things into perspective, and helps you realize that what you are going through is not so individual as you might think, but rather something really human, something we all share - and it makes it somehow easier.
Here I go, philosophising (???) again

[Mabel Figworthy]

What a wonderful idea to combine your love of poetry and language with your love of stitching! (not to mention the fact that it is very therapeutic!)

[agi]

Here is the pattern for the new one, mostly of Hungarian folk art motifs.


Edit:
Unfortunately, my PcStitch doesn't want to create a proper jpg file from the pattern, probably because it is too big... It will be stitched on dark natural linen, the text with black, and the patterns, some of which doesn't show at all in this picture, in white.
Well, you will see soon.

I will stitch a whole poem this time, not only an excerpt. This is it (the translation doesn't do justice to it, but that's the only one I found):

Who will carry love over
( by Laszlo Nagy)

My soul if at last for ever sinks,
who will love the cricket- violins?
Who’ll breath flames on frosty branch?
on rainbows who’ ll be forever stretched?
Who will love crying the rock- hips
silently into soft lumped fields?
Who’ll coddle walls- coming out of these
fountains of hair, arteries?
And to ruined believes whose force
will build cathedrals out of curse?
My soul if at last for ever sinks,
who will deter hawks over the seas?
Who will with his teeth, in high tide,
take Love over to the other side?

[Rose]

That is going to be amazing!!!!

[mags]

Just a thought Agi, if you are doing a series of these, you could make a fabric book of them. Would seem appropriate.

[agi]

What a good idea Mags, thanks! I was wondering if I will have enough wall space - probably not because of the few thousand books

I will give it a thought - how big can a book like that be? These are quite big... I will look around to find some examples.

[~threadbear~]

A book is a fabulous idea Agi, so unusual and you could leave it out when you have friends round ... a wonderful topic of conversation, for the poems, the workmanship etc.

[meerkat]

Your heart finish is lovely Agi. I like seeing words from other languages stitched onto projects. Your idea for a series is a very personal way to express yourself and so creative.