A bloggger I follow regularly is Kathy Loomis from Art with a Needle. She is an incredible artist and regularly and freely shares her insight into the art world as well as her techniques. I am a technique freak. I don’t use patterns but love to learn new ways of doing things.  A recent technique she shared was how to insert very tiny lines of fabric into a larger block. I couldn’t wait to try it and did!

But then my bits languished on the design wall for a couple months. I kept trying to use a piece of hand dyed, manipulated fabric with them and it just wasn’t working. This week, I gave up and tried something else and it came together to my satsifaction. I do not claim this as an original work of art, it is my interpretation of Kathy’s technique and admittedly, looks like it.

I love the way it turned out. I enjoyed learning something new. I will most certainly use this again. I can see applications to my ladder series. For now anyway,  I will hang this in my family room. Here it is:

As I worked on this piece, I thought of broken things, broken people. Once something has been broken, it is never the same. It can be fixed but it will never be as it once was.  I thought of how God can take our broken pieces and make them beautiful. He can truly redeem anything.

Until next time….