I was gathering bits this morning, little pieces of stitching, samples, offcuts, some torn paper pieces. These tiny scraps have been carefully stored, kept for this reason, to play with, to move around and arrange into complimentary groupings, to create mini design sheets. It's a refresher, a warm up, a little like doodling. One stitch here laid next to another piece with a different surface can spark an idea, prompt a direction.
None of these are stuck down, the little pieces are put away safely again now. All that's needed to remember these is a few minutes looking through my image files....something else I do a lot of.