Spirit Cloth

Comments are off through November. I'll be in Diary mode till then. That is making notes to myself, adding throughout the day. Stop by if you have time. I am trying to level my inner self. SunMoonStars will be posted at FEEL FREE by tomorrow. The original class. In this way I can rock inward and vibrate outward at the same time. There were some issues  with format but it is OK for now I think, I will fix the audio format later. Running the class here is not working for me. I will use the original class as reference.

I just don't feel like talking much right now.

A Week to be Grateful

 

 

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I saved this here, for later.

 

I do celebrate Thanksgiving. No feast here in these later years. It is my fasting day. To clear my head and heart. To think long and hard. To give. To thank.  To reconsider risk and and self importance. To volunteer and help others. To rock inward yet vibrate outward. To realign.

 

This morning in a flurry of wind and rain, all the leaves fell down and gave me a longer view. I thank them for that.

 

Wordless for a week or so. You are all friends and family. I will be with you in spirit.

 

My shop is closed for a while, but there are some fabulous goodies over here. Say hi to Glennis for me.

 

The Cat Quilt

A blanket. One of my biggest.

Eighty inches square. It was meant to fit a queen size mattress.

Where can I hang it outside?

There is a big drop from the back deck. I tacked it to the outside of the rail. The light is showing through where it needs to be mended. Making note of that.

It is very sunny.

Just for a full view then, a sense of scale, and layout. That's the studio on the left and what was my son's room on the right. Now that sleep loft and the "plant" room, we use it like a dining room sometimes and I use it as a studio substitute when I run out of wood to heat the regular studio which has the leaky roof and not enough insulation.  More leaves will fall. Imagine that.

This quilt grew without a plan. (and yes, it started with a nine patch) I worked in rings. The last big ring, the stars, was only completed on two sides. It was big enough, and as it happened it gave it a sense of something larger. There are suns and moons and stars built into this one. I know I will find them in all my work. The quilt was hand pieced using my paperless piecing method. Hand quilted. On a commuter train. Before I quit my day job. It is actually one of the few quilts I made with batting. In this case, a super thin cotton batt with unbleached muslin on the underside. With this quilt journey came the birth of new ideas about quilting. 

There are more photos on Flickr here. Many taken in the months right before I started this blog. I am still in contact with many of the first internet friends I met on Flickr. It's been some not so small journey. Just Going

This quilt needs mending. So I will take more pictures and fill in the stories.

 

Saturday before the cold moves in

These mornings. So warm for November. Spring like, except for the color and the angle of the light.

One more day. Today. Or so they say. There will be snow north of us maybe.

This morning. A reminder to dust.

Reconsidered... nah. It's a thread. I can live with that.

Stitching instead. Just a bit.

A trip around the moon. Not running. Walking. One stitch at a time.

It's a glorious day. I'll use it to take some pics of the big quilt from here. Because I said I would. And I have been meaning to document it properly for a while now.

How Double Cloth taught me

Inspired by cloth, it is my teacher.

This kind of cloth inspired my Invisible Baste, aka the Glue Stitch.

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I used to have a blog called ThreadCrumbs.

I am adding new content and redocumenting all of it here in more detail as a learning tool under the category Cloth Stories. This is also part of the purge of cloth here, a lot of which will end up in the Threadcrumbs shop eventually.

The shops are closed for a while.

The holiday rush is not my cup of tea.

I may let a few things go here on the blog for now.

Mending the roof

 

The real one still leaks.

A morning and two small cloths

Two versions of what I might call Blue November.

Both "patch"work really

I've  collaged a few of my dyed patchwork components.  And tacked it next to something similar that was pieced. Seamed. I like when there is more than one way to consider. I like to lokk at that. No matter how hard I might try I can never do anything more than once. The same way. Actually I don't really try to do that. I do like to create settings. It's a kind of PlaceKeeping.  Bases for going through. I feel beasts arriving.

I just noticed the sharp pain is gone. I now hold a dull ache in the background.

Blue is a color. Blue is a feeling. I wonder how that came to be.

It is very brown here. 

The Nature of it

There is wind in the grass this morning.

And a lot of leaves.

I want to rename this cat Sits With Leaves.

But really he sits with all of it. It's like a ceremony. He sits. And then he moves on. Sometimes seemingly for no reason. But I think I am just not getting it.

I am recovering from a small oral surgery yesterday. There is pain. I am not taking the pain medicine. I do that sometimes. Sit with it. If I can. I find it most enlightening. I have on occasion, been able to distance myself from it. Separate me and the pain. See them separately. It helps me understand the nature of it. Me.

I might not get to the post office today. In which case it will, most probably, be tomorrow.

 

Stars like Windows

It is going like this. (continued from yesterday.)

I liked the cutting through. The star windows. I mended the idea of one. I made 4.

Like secrets revealed.

Wishing to some is silly. You may say I'm a dreamer...  But for me it is just an opportunity to pause and imagine how it might go. That's all. I don't really expect to get anything from it. Except maybe new eyes.

I ran into the edge on one side.  I used what I cut off  and butted it against one of the spinning planes. It might be appearing or disappearing. I really like these parts of seeing. In between this and that.

Still working to get the original SunMoonStars class released at Feel Free. Fiddling.

Continuing the Change of Direction

 Still Spinning, from here...

 

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A lot of ideas floating around with this one. But this is where it's at today. So far.

In this corner of the universe.

 

 

Notes to self: marking a change in direction is also a kind of alignment. We divide space by going.

 

 

And I just unrolled this:

 

For MoonDay.

This one has been through a zillion processes.

The base was created way back when.

I'm looking at it today, I'll talk about it soon.