Spirit Cloth

May showers

Happy garlic chives.  Since there weren't really enough April showers here, the garden is really happy with today's gentle May shower.  It's been so dry here. 

 

 

I spent some time this morning, watching the fresh drops roll down the  new woad leaves.   Just sitting, Looking,  Tomorrow I am back on the road to Mom's.   I will rest in the garden today.  Even if it is raining.

We are thinking of turning my studio into a greenhouse.  I like that idea a lot.

Maybe about Earth

 

I'm not sure I have said a lot about this cloth, although it has been in process for quite a while.   I stitch on it once in a while.  I did a little more.  Maybe for Earth day.   It uses a lot of the browns I dyed last year.  It has the feel of earth to me.  Some kind of natural order.  With a little bit of the unexpected.
I think I will leave most of the empty space. 

 

Give the earth a rest.

 

Cloth is

Cloth is something you can hold on to.

( if you have not been here in the last few days and have not read  my notes about email hacking please do....  here  and  here )

X

There was an  X  in the morning.  I like how it was a marking nothing in a way.  Just letting the light through.  

 

There was an  X  in the afternoon.    This is where the stump from the big tree pulled out of the ground.  We had it ground down so we could expand the garden.  I noticed the shadows from the branches above  seemed to mark the spot very clearly in the afternoon sun. 

 

Later in the day, I stitched one.  An X.  It was on my mind.  That simple mark.  Two lines paired in such a centering way.   Just a little X.   I am sure it will come in handy eventually.  There are always spots to be marked. 

I seem to have wound down.  Not in a shop mood at all.   The holidays make me dizzy.    So, I think that's it for now.   An X or two over a  glass (or two)  of  good red wine.     No big plans or news for the rest of the year.   Just letting it go.   Like it does. 

 

Ok then...

 

I  have a lot to adjust to,  now that I am seeing everything differently.   What if I take a bit of time out here ?   See what happens with all these new eyes.    I will drop in here now and then  through the end of the year.  With the magic feather cloth.  To update my newsletter  and  stuff.    I might do one more  shop update  as well.... and maybe just some looking.  Catch you later....

Comments are off for a while.   Let's all relax . Dream a little.   Mend a few holes.