michelle’s
shoe
tread
pieces of the journey.
left, right, left. the pieces i pick up along the way will shape the design. don’t know how it will turn out. i’d planned for the shoe to be more muted as you can see by the brown metallic choice for the tread lines… but see the treasure i’m finding along the way? the pieces are bright and colorful. running and life. cheesy metaphors. can’t help what’s put in front of us…just say yes and make it pretty.
friday 01.01.21
time solves.
what a great weekend for creativity. thank you, laurie and michelle, for slowing down every time i thought i saw road treasures. see the pink thread alongside the beads? road construction rope from 144th and Zuni. the horizontal plastic pieces? the tassels that indicate buried things. also today, laurie gifted me a bright green shoelace. oh geez. so excited to place her shoelace on this piece! (i think it was from her 3:36 Chicago. so that is a very special shoelace.) team #stupidhobby, always inspirational!
sunday 01.03.21
tip of the toe.
filling in. picked up some new road trash for other parts of the tread. laurie said, “typical.” :-)
01.14.21
mid-sole.
well, tip of the toe is done. now moving on the mid-sole. the pink strips are those plastic pieces that mark utilities alongside the road. the yellow is the plastic from the flags used to mark utilities as well. all things collected from runs. also i’m done with this pandemic.
02.04.21
bitter cold weekend.
temperatures in the negatives gave a little time for adding frames this weekend. nothing but peloton, so missed my running girls. :-( but, the green line is laurie’s shoelace. it’s hard to see but i’ll find a way to fill in the edges so the tread fits the space. she’s overflowing the border right now along the top part but that won’t always be true.
02.15.21
a great week.
last week was nice. change of space, different foods, time to enjoy a few new things. also made some progress on this project. grateful for the time spent with friends that inspires creativity, for the things picked up along the way, and for each step forward. we like to say, “all of broomfield is uphill” and that’s true in many ways. but hopefully the hills make us stronger!
monday 03.01.21
blizzard weekend.
it’s been really nice this weekend to relax and sew. the storm closed everything and it’s not possible to get out. thought i might watch some TV but enjoying the quiet of podcasts. boots, not heels, sweaters, not lace. a run on saturday on the wildgrass loop, getting home just as the wind/sleet began. thank you michelle - we did time this right! put a square around what has changed since the last post. will keep working tonight and take some pictures of the snow later.
sunday 03.14.21
mile 18
not quite mile 20, that’s a little further out…but getting there. tip of the toe. thought about ways to finish this one…going to extend the tread into the toe, i think. have loved every (mile) (step) of this project. if i had any followers other than my running girls they’d tell me to cut back on the running analogies. but since not, let the words land. podcasts, quiet, thinking. the time with this one has been healing.
tuesday 03.23.21
it’s done.
love it. thanks for your shoe, michelle, and for all the miles. this one was so fun. thanks for stopping to pick up road trash and for running during the pandemic. couldn’t have survived it without you and laurie. laurie…your shoe is next. :-) you can see the final product on the main “work” page.