Spirit Cloth

quilting leftovers

i will be working on alphabet soup over the weekend. some quilting planned while visiting mom. i put the whole alphabet together so it would form a rectangle. some letters stand on their own and i figured i would embellish them with embroidery or applique. so B was for bee, an embroidered bee. but B could have been for Bear or Butterfly.

the god of the midnight doodle

stitching a doodle by lamplight and thinking about my day.
my friend the doodle god who sits my my bed  sang softly and today i am refreshed.
.....a lovely fabric doodle to give away and a fresh doodle start....i will begin using my lovely new journal, a generous handmade gift from jenn.
this will be my journal now. yes. and when it is full, i will send it back to her filled with midnight doodles. thank you doodle god. thank you jenn.

......if you haven't visited meg yet you might want to.

and i love visiting here lately...

and hooray. this is my 500th post.

doodling reincarnation

....coming back as a flower. i think i should color this one.

quilting games

....i knew that after layering over the old quilt edge, i knew i would want to bring the circles back to the surface, and that is where i found myself  this morning. it turned into a game, trying to guess where they were and cutting through playing peekaboo-where-are-you... it seemed the perfect opportunity to use what if # 14 in a real time application. and it was quite fun turning back the triangles to reveal the color below.

..... the quilt played with me too, the unsewn edges rose off the surface, curling up and doing a little dance waiting their turn to be tacked down and the blacker right-side flipped onto the faded back side which was now the topside and oh how delirious it all became. when suddenly i realized the amazing distortion that was waiting to happen when i sew those petals down, all that black and white swirling and shifting pattern work. a- MAZE-ing.

quilting outside the box

the new edge added from one of the old quilts, seemed a bit dull and i planned to resurface it a bit.
.......i came across an old skirt while unpacking some spring clothes from winter storage. i think it would have seemed a bit too stark had it not shown its back side to me first. so i though i would cover this edge with another layer and then expose the circles somehow... but it turned out to be a circle cut and when i cut the edge off it was curved. i added it anyway, letting it fall as a partial circle , wrong side up, and now there is a new center somewhere outside the original boundary.
......i feel this fell into place on its own and has given me the freedom to accept more of that for this cloth.
one edge didn't reach. i have taken to taping reminders here and there, sticky thought catchers.