....a dreary day and a bit of alphabet soup. this one has become a slow cloth. despite the fact that it was pieced on the machine it has finally crossed the line into spirit cloth.
While working on D which started out being for dreaming, a Dot became a Daisy with a bit of attention and loving care, and i crossed the hard edge of the border into something new. i am just thinking about machine piecing and how i used to think it all wrong for me. i am no longer sure what i was trying to prove by that. believing in things is ok , its the proving that is dangerous. something about proof is static, stagnating. it is like you sit and rot rather than grow. anyway, i am allowing myself to use a bit of what i have been experimenting with lately combining it with the regular machine patchwork.
i sketched directly on the quilt to form a base for the applique. and then i slid right into sketching a border idea. this border has just become a real time functional quilt test for skatching. it will probably take forever but i am still very excited. slow cloth is about nurturing something. 
