So the cloth was flung on the floor. Just to see its size. It settled, moved by it's own breeze. Remembering the small journey. And before I turned it over, (because even though this looks like the side I will work on, it is the other side) I just had to wonder. Can I capture this. This movement?
Because it has a sense of carrying. sweeping. Curling into.
I do this a lot. Let the moment play out. For a while.
It is almost a wind keeper.
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Day 2- The Magic Feather Cloth 1...
I sewed four pieces of sky/ shibori together , quickly, this morning as the sun came up. I used a sewing machine for the long straight seams. Sometimes I do that as a starting point. A point of reference. The context of the time we live in. It felt as if I need to start. Make this space. Now. The resulting cloth measures a little over six feet square. A good basic size I think. Maybe it will get a little bigger. Maybe a bit smaller. Certainly big enough to sit on or hide under.
I took no care in making a perfect meeting point. There was no need. The cloth touches and holds together just fine. It is a nice open space. And as I turned the cloth over to press the seams I stopped to notice that honesty of that place. So fragile with such thin cloth. I realized that this cloth is being started at a time when I have been quite focused on the way things might move through us. How that might have a lot to do with understanding. And so, with that thought caught again, I decided to make the other side, the one we hide most often, that side of the base will be the face. I will start with sympathy for what is on the inside. This is good.
The cloth needs a name. Naming is often a sympathetic evolution for me as I work. Mostly I am thinking about kindness. And how we change as something is allowed to move through us. This exchange. The resulting transformation. What we might become. And with all these thoughts, for some reason, I think of home. Maybe it is just the comfort in that. S0 for now I will call this one Home. A safe place to start. Maybe even a good place to end up.
A place where fragile is beautiful and ok for as long as it takes.
And I have started a real journal. Something not digital.
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On this clear quiet day in May, after a bit of dream catching and life getting in the way, I have begun the ground cloth for the first Magic Feather Cloth. I have gathered some sky cloth, indigo, some dyed by Glennis, and some dyed by me, (after taking her class where she shared her secrets so freely). I think it is a good start, an open space based on sharing. A combination of thin cotton and linen. Soft and light. Space . Place. A new beginning. A sense of Old Sky.
This blog will now be dedicated to this project. For as long as it takes. For those of you who have contributed feathers to this project, please email me if you see your feather featured here as the story unfolds. I want to add a bit more information about you to the journal that will accompany this gift. You can email me using the link in the sidebar.
There are so many feathers, I think we have the makings of many cloths. So I will just keep going until I use them up. To balance the lightness of sky and feather, I will need some stones, as mentioned here. I am looking for something tiny and simple. Like the one picture above. Just a 1- 2" square of cloth, natural fibers only. With a stone ( never a perfect circle) applique in the center. The applique needs to be turned. Like this.
Please keep the colours stone-like in feel and the background undyed or neutral/naturally dyed or blue. Soft or old cloth that is easy to stitch through would be nice. You might make one or more . Email me for an address if you don't have it already. There is no rush and no deadline.
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Thank You.
The magic cloth has become a serpent of days. In the morning it is waiting.
Tere will be no shop update this week, although things will be floating in, I am not planning to release anything until next week. I have decided to celeberate the Moon by looking.
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I have begun to move outward, and to distort the frame in sympathy with the original ring of vision. With dreams of expanding the cloth to cloth idea. This could go on forever. But of course I will never have time. But then again I can imagine it. So there you go. Mend your ideas and they might last forever.
And today I really like this.
It is Friday. Now officially Feather Friday. Finally. How to gather the Magic Feathers together in some unified way has really been my dilemma. I think that the circle is the best. The Ring. I have decided to use Indigo sky cloth, dyed ala Glennis style, to act as a base . And to leave a space in the center for sitting or standing or simply gazing. I haven't really chosen placement yet, this is just a cloth sketch to get an idea of how it will feel. And stones. I think there will be stones. If you are interested in stitching a stone, I will be gathering them soon as well (details soon). I am creating a separate place where the story will gather. There will be a link to that soon here on the blog. I just took a deep breath because this feels good. Yes.
So this was basically the plan...
And we have nine kinds of greens well established at this point. Extra room for the radicchio. We'd like to have nine kinds of grapes as well. I need to research that a bit. And berries. So far we planted gooseberries, blackberries , raspberries, strawberries to add to the mulberries already growing. Three kinds each of the blackberries and raspberries, that could make nine.
A garden quilt could be nice, right? A record of this long growing season. What if I start with a lot of brown. layers of brown. I like that idea. Yes I do. A season keeper. Something to snuggle up under like a couple of seeds on a winter's night, trusting in a new season.
Sometimes the day looks better through cloth. Magic Cloth 2, aka Rings of Vision. Ready for the new season. Destined to be a human wrapping cloth. A large cloth of many layers. Still thin enough to be filled with light.
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