Here we go.
A big cold moon coming. A shift in season.
I feel it in these old bones.
Yesterday, I basted a piece of plant dyed silk to a center section of the other side of Holding Pattern. The thin catch layer is there to stabilize and hold any early embroidery and stitch secure. To catch stitch that will not ultimately show on the other side of the finished cloth. Now, I've begun patching the silk lining behind the snow globe center. I will use up my plant dyed silk experiments. As a record of this place. Let it ground this cloth. Little by little. I shall quilt/stitch the center within the boundaries of this patch today. I'll start today anyway. These stitches will go all the way through. Hold the layers. The patches will be added as I am ready. Follow the pattern rings. Hold that in a different way. And then I will make the cloth larger. And then, eventually, line that part in a similar way. Staying on the edge as the cloth gets too big to handle easily.
I'm beginning a little hibernation for December. Away. In a few hours I will be closing Feel Free in order to move the content. No small task. I'll be travelling a bit as well. Threadcrumbs will be up and down, managed by Exot (Nemo) as time allows.
While stitching snow globes late last night, fireside, I snapped this not so clear photo. It reminded me how everything is in motion. And so December will go as it goes and we'll see.
