According to one dictionary definition, a thrum is “The fringe of warp threads left on a loom after the cloth has been cut off.” So thrums are the leftover, what’s left after using up the bulk of it.
And that’s what my creative time is like. I create things in the thrums of my time, after the bulk is cut off for work. A little thrum some evenings before bed, a little thrum early in the morning, before work, and a bit of thrum on the weekend. Tiny thrums in the subway commute to work – a stitch here, a row there. You can get a lot of stuff done that way, and of course you can make beautiful things with thrums.
Welcome to Thrums – my life with needles and thread. If you go back to the first post thinking you’ll find some kind of “well howdy-do here I am” you’ll be disappointed. It’s not that I didn’t do that…..I did. And a few months in, my blog crashed and burned and I couldn’t get any of it back. So it kind of starts in midstream, alas.
