Spirit Cloth

Things come and go

Many arrangements were washed away with the day. I ended up with this. She. Still standing. Not swept away. Washed by it, that which flows through. Kantha legs are strong. The additions are all silk. Which started with the foggy silk ...

the mother ring

Today's ring is an Egg. And the birth of a new something. Today mom made me pie. And did puzzles, her afternoon exercise. I showed her this idea. And stitched this. Thinking 'Mothering'. I drove home in a flurry of snow.

Thinking in Advance

The center of Endless Wishing is basted. All pins are gone. Like most larger cloths I often quilt the center before I extend it. Not always but often. I do this because it is easy to get at. Easier to handle. And often how the center is...

destiny?

destiny. featured here, transition dyed indigo cotton by glennis dolce. in my sidebar and on my resource page.

outside in february

At a time of year when I usually ration the firewood to stretch the heat until spring, it is simply too nice to be indoors. Warm, balmy even, but still the long winter shadows So it's an outside day. Again. No wonder I didn't finis...

Settling into holding

The empty sky space has really filled with a nice naturally ordered motion and still it is an open space.. There is nice rhythm to making it happen. The funny thing about a dense kantha, running stitch... the tension of the stitch...

13 moons

.....i am glad i asked myself what if (?) i make cloth versions of my plans because stitching plan one has been very enlightening. i am sticking with the basic layout i think. it works as a calendar as well as a 9 patch. it is basical...

a little love story

...and the little ragged scrap said to the thread, " I love you, you complete me..." ********* Serena is doing a few tutorials explaining her hand piecing methods... My favorite line from today's post is: "...What do I do with my se...

Stitching

Quilting (for me) is a needle chant. One stitch at a time is how I like it. Needle in Needle out

Stitching a String of Feathers

And yes there is still stitching. Maybe I have slowed down even more, just to make it last. I am lining the streaming with silk. The gentle pull of the stitches forms a soft curve. I feel like these long narrow cloths are like ...