Spirit Cloth

Not thinking too much

Just looking. 

Well, I am thinking a bit about how we divide space to create peace. 

And working to restore some old What If links here on the blog.  There will be a password protection now and then .  Nothing permanent,  just diddling around.

Reach

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Tornado watch till 6AM

 

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Two trees down.   11 hours to go.  Powering down.

There might be a slight pause in my online class presence.  See you later...

Space has a soft edge

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I have begun to consider space as one of the important elements in this cloth.  Because I am considering space in general.  And its effect on peace of mind.   More stones have gathered here,  I should be able to post them later today when the temperature drops a bit.  Right now I am unplugging for noontime sun.  To go sit in the sea.   No AC here.  And I melt easily.

I will be posting here on Spirit Cloth,  just about the progress of  Magic Feather Cloth 1, HOME, through June, and then I will be gone in July.  Poof.   Please hold any new stone contributions until I return in August.  Thanks.

Read about the Magic Feather project up top.

 

the crayon, the basket and the circle

I was delighted.  After choosing crayon as my medium for marking the cloth.  Because of its simplicity and familiarity.   One of my first creative tools.   I was delighted to find  a crayola crayon with the name indigo.  I didn't remember that. Not real indigo of course, but good enough for my story.  Crayons will permanently stain a cloth.  Some of the darker  colors anyway.   It is best to leave them out in the sun for a while to soften them.   I iron the wax out later.  

The basket is  another simple useful thing.  This one is a favorite.  It measures about 21" across. From Indonesia.   I use it to  hold threads and scraps and things.  Sometimes I hang it up and look at it .   I like it because it is well made by hand and  it is a  shallow vessel.  It holds with a sense of not holding.   It creates an easy place.  A freedom keeper.  I use it  to make circles.    Not perfect circles.  Just soft rings.   It rained again last night, I love how the moisture accentuated the knots in the wood making them look like feathers.

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I am still working with the ring and the nine patch grid  one over the other as a marking plan.  I will use the crayon. Without measuring or using any other tools, I will  mark the rest of the lines.