Spirit Cloth

The glacier is receding.

Like it does. We wait.

To celebrate...

...some new growth around an old broken heart. (a Double Running Stitch is Magic) With a note to self.

Feel Free from worry and have a nice weekend.

Basket self eclipsing.

Three little Things

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StarDust and Things in Space

This is a very old drawing. I used to have it in my sidebar. At the time I gave the original SunMoonStars class, it was there.

I was going to put it back, but there is so much there right now. Floating around.

Anyway, I just want to continue with the constellation idea.

And the stippling style from my old illustrations has obvious use here. Maybe even more now, since I have been unrolling, noticing how this drawing style crept in. I think Thread Beads grew from this habit.

So to continue...

Some of the stitching I began when the class was running,below....

I did quite a few of these.  The stippling was a combination of thread beads and tiny random back stitches.

I am making new ones now. I want to stay with this for a while. Below, a few of the originals.

I talked a bit about it back then.

 

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I also brought back an old photo of one of the first spirit cloths I made as a gift for a newborn baby, because I have fond memories making it . And because it is very sun moon stars. And because I used the above drawing as inspiration for all the little things that were floating in space. The rays of the sun gave them some purpose and order. But I did not use the stipple here.  Mostly because by the time I would have been getting to it, the baby was being born. Now that I have a bit of time on my hands, I am looking again, thinking that all the little things themselves are a kind of stippling , yes?

This is the center of the quilt. I did not take the photo. Around the sun it says: With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Which is a Chinese proverb.

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Another reference, the shirt I made for my son. 1978. Before I named them thread beads and wrap stitch.

So today again considering little things floating in space. Some Galaxy Storming for later.

 

 

Autumn Eyes

With the return of heat and damp stink, it's been hard to feel the turning.

But there is turning. And this morning I noticed it, as I do over and over again. Season unrolling.

Color caught in between. I never get enough of this deck and how it catches season. And the many eyes.

Wood eyes. Looking along with me.

You might remember this one. If you recently ran through the Whispering Color Series available though Feel Free Online Classes. Or if you were actually there when I ran it originally. It was #11 in the Journey into color. You might review the videos there. I did.

So I unrolled it and renamed it Autumn Eyes. To update it. So I might sit with it. Bring it back into focus.