Spirit Cloth

the nature of old and new

 Today I am asking myself if (?) new thoughts might move through old self more easily for the same reason as the needle glides through old cloth. .

Yesterday, in Diaries I began to focus on Dragons (it is the year of the dragon) as story keepers for Magic Cloth 1. 

And so all things being connected,  I have also decided to make  the dragon my beast  of focus  for now.  Is that too many things?  I don't think so.  Focus is a little game I play with myself to expand my vision. I have become a lot better at it over the years... besides, deciding, without worrying  is easier.  So now we have:

color = brown

shape = ring

beast = dragon

concept = sympathetic evolution

 OK.

quilting and disappearing

 i have framed home once again with a gingham gauze toned down in some pomegranate/oak overdip. softer .   gingham always says home. i just updated it a bit to be more me.  the frame is meant to both square up the piece as well as skew it.  something i have been thinking a lot about lately. the shape of context. and i am quilting with tiny stitches. a home needs to be a secure nest, so i think density in spite of the lightness is an important element to this cloth.

and even though this was started last year, as winter approached, there is a ring. a ring of dreams, i suppose. i have allowed it to continue, even to disappear now and then. it happens just that way.

and so in sympathy i will do the same. quilt, disappear and perhaps reappear now and then. until the holidays are over. so if i am not here, i won't be gone, i will just be stitching over at diaries. on larger cloth. the kind you can get lost in.

i will be adding some things to the shop, finishing up a stack of stuff here, making room for a new season of rings and things.  i have no schedule for release, i don't want to think about it really. while everyone is scurrying around planning holiday sales, i would rather just be home stitching. not worrying and thinking too much is a real holiday for me.

 i did not do a novemebr newsletter because there was no real news, except leaves.

coma at rest

i decided, if coma was to be hung, i would like it this way. the heaviness naturally falling to the bottom. in real life, the cloth is actually becoming a sleeping bag.  some sort of human container. cocoon.  the back will be  separate cloth (s). detachable. attachable. i am chasing something safe and warm (cool) for a sudden change of season.  i think function, merged with design, is always a strong statement.

i have noticed lately that a lot of my cloths have some sort natural light and dark side. a natural order that happens over and over. sometimes these things happen by themselves because you have them in your head. i when i was about 8, i remember dad showing me how to shade things with india ink cross hatching. i remember that i was really amazed. shading. a dark side.  appropriate here, for coma. but not planned outright. just realized through process.

place

nice to sit by a fire.

and stitch.

to watch things fall together and not be worrying about anything. to ignore confusion.

to appreciate what happened yesterday, after imagining it beforehand.

to wonder where the camera charger is. to not know.

to not care.

at least not now.

seasonal rings

today, anticipating colder nights, i moved the potted plants off the deck, into the house. the clay pots left rings on the wood. aren't they beautiful?  they sell plastic guards to prevent this from happening. and people buy them.

later, i tried isolating some pomegranate dye inside the ring. on cloth. nice.  change is inspiration. preventing it might inhibit what makes us think.

i also tried filling some rings with marks. thread marks.

this yellow stone now seems like a sun dial. moon dial?

rays. rays are like fringe.

making the best of it

so what happened today was i was thinking about this machine stitch that i had tried way back when, as one of the experiments in cloth to cloth. an alternative to hold it together. and well i am stitching , filling in the embroidery, building on  the shapes created by the machine stitching, going right up close to it, and in some ways i think it will remain a quilting stitch but also a design guide, disappearing in the process but staying functional. and i like that actually. i do.  and because of this, the circles are starting to sympathize with the squares. there is nice crossover here. evolution.   a little thing but something i will explore more. but what else is new?

day or night

who can tell really? another day of rain and darkness. i slept late because there was no sunrise here.

she slept longer than usual along side the dried indigo leaves, some sympathetic hibernation.

i am glad i kept going on this one. turning the points inward on the top edge, allowing for some day dream underneath.

that's better.

the shape of sharing

cloth as fringe.

i used the extra cloth to redefine the edge where conversation is talking place. a good conversation will redefine your boundaries i think.