Spirit Cloth

The last Sunday in April

Not a great  day.

Some anxiety.

Some rearranging.

Some red wine.

But then, still a day.

Better then no day.

So Ok.

Then.

 

The Center of the Earth

 

 

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So right now it is there.

Like a living thing.

I'll come back to it later.

Even if it just to feel it again.

Quilting

Yesterday was cold.

I did a lot of the quilting on the earth side of home.

The rings of stitching needed to hold the silk from sliding.

I stitched and stitched.

Well into the dark hours. At one point I was stitching in the dark. Feeling my way.

Fingers become eyes in the dark.

Right?

I just let it go. It flowed from me. Made me lighter.

My thumb joint needed a bit of Arnica rub before bed.  Today will be warmer but not much. They say.

But who knows?

Grass

It's cold. Too cold for my liking. For April.

But not for Grass. Grass is happy. Maybe even hoping it will stay this way.

And that's the way it is.

Turning a corner

Hard to believe, maybe, that I am still stitching so much on this cloth but feeling at the same time that it is really done. I think that is because the  uncertainty is over.  Now things are just falling into place. As if I dreamed it and I have awoken to a clear day and I am just remembering a story. Not making one up.

I am refining the Four Corners.

I am also noticing the weight of the cloth. The more I add, the lighter it seems to become.  I think the silk base on the earth side did that. As I quilt through, the silk has a strange effect on the drape and feel as it joins with the rest of the cloth layers.  I get the impression it becomes thinner as I go. It UnDoes a kind of heaviness that has lingered through winter. In this way it is kind.

We almost had a freeze last night.

More feathers will be added to the jagged edges on this side. I may have to cut some from their backing to fit them together. Bring them closer. In this way space again becomes important, but in a different way. Less of it.

Please note... I have rebalanced and find myself with many family and friend type folks in far away places  that miss me on Facebook so I have put the link back in the sidebar and will simply post there in moderation. Not really spending much time there, but there all the same.