Well am underway with my new embroidery/painting. It is very satisfying using the backstitch on dyed areas of the linen, like slow little paths making their way across it. I will pile in with some oil paint when I have said all I want to with the slow-stitch, all by hand never machine. It gives you time, time to just be. To feel the silk thread and the softness of the linen and the way it moves like nothing else. It is almost alive.