Spirit Cloth

back to wishing

today i am finishing up some wish related things. there is a ring of ragged wishing stars around miss butterfly in the becoming more mini quilt. i have backed the piece with light weight linen/cotton and i am quilting around the stars with contrasting coarse stitches which now look like a million more stars as they secure the edge of the quilt.
 ...meanwhile the edge of a soft scream (also a self portrait) is also star filled in some more chaotic way.  i used that old patchwork as a backing .

...but i have started to cut out around some of the wishing stars which allows the ragged back of the old patchwork to act as a backdrop and in some places it becomes part of the front.  some sort of time warp. i am leaving various points of the stars unpatched, raw and missing in a way.

...it is all very confusing. but you gotta love it.

doodle wednesday , by the way, has officially moved to friday. i wish i was more together with the workshop thing but that will have to wait till next week. here's wishing you a wondeful wednesday.

doodle friday

...because wednesday is morphing into workshop wednesday.  and because i missed doodle wednesday because i was sure it was tuesday.  the cherry on the top looks like it might roll down any minute.

doodle wednesday and september dots

... an old drawing in new context.

doodle thursday

catching up because i slept through doodle wednesday.  a plan for twins. and a cool breeze.

... and just a heads up, sara has a new blog.

doodle wednesday and the long doodle

i started this long ago.
...it has turned into a long doodle. when something takes a long time or a long form, it seems more like a journal, a journey.  a dot connector.

dots as a result of a spin

excerpt from an old journal page in 2007.  doodles on cloth .

doodling on

...one section ...from today's doodle page.

redefining doodles on wednesday

doodling is like leaving a trail. a random mark. it could be footsteps even. that is what i am thinking today. i found two feathers in the garden today. bird doodles. i placed them on a beautiful rust experiment that was a gift from peg yates not so long ago. a what if.  a rust doodle. rusty dots. 

....i think coma has become a doodle cloth. something mindless, some thing random, something direct. cloth instead of paper. doodles with a pen, doodles with thread.

doodles with fabric, yes painting with fabric.

lucky us

...monday was our anniversary. # 8 even though we have been together for 24 years. another doodle, because it wednesday....a portrait of THE MAN i drew years ago.

i decided to let love's gamble go this month with the new moon so i am giving it a border. i backed it with an awesome (really) cotton silk ikat from exot and folded it up and over on 3 sides, leaving that deep blood red fringe on the last edge. i added the words Love is for the Lucky to complete the collaged border. just because i was in the mood. i like how this one has become less and less sweet with time and how it has become very folk art in my opinion. it has been stitched into a kind of richness that happens very slowly.

Doodle wednesday Distorted Dots

what if you squish dots so they have some straight edges so that they could be done as patchwork. are dots still dots if they change? are the names we give things only part of what they can be?