Spirit Cloth

Day 121 ( just a personal tally)

...still quilting a Nest of Days

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The Inevitable Effect of Touch

I've been using the Nest of Days cloth to pin stuff on while working lately. 

Now that the two new cloths have a life of their own, out on the porch, I find myself again looking at this quilt that has been almost done for so long. I touched it a lot and now it is calling me again.

This one is a fully hand patched puzzle style cloth. Oddly based on a 1 3/4" square, the larger blocks being 5 1/4". If you were following this one a while back, you might remember.

I was in the process of covering the other side in sympathy with the front, and then, who knows?, I got distracted. Years? Geez. So this was going to be a baby quilt. For a baby, but now, too much time has past so I can think of it the other way, the cloth as a baby and now let it grow up. 

The other side was patched ragged edge style , leaving a path for sympathetic patching to be done over the checkerboard.  5 squares were chained  as a beginning. And I stopped.  The ragged edged patching was basted along the seam lines from the front so I have a guide to place this final frame which will be turned puzzle piecing, applied applique style catching the overlap, to cover the ragged edge and seal the backing. 

Two older posts for reference here and here.

I have pinned the cloth I plan to use. I will sew the squares together the usual way and fill in with the other cloth. Create the puzzle pieces on the fly into the existing spaces.  Flat out on a table, I will apply this square ring of warmth. 

I have to take the time to do this now. Just need to.

And then make it Bigger.

There is no structure to my days here any longer in terms of teaching. They are just a nest. And when all falls away, that will be just what is needed.

Note to self, take the time to build what you need.

How it Mostly Goes

Together, glued with pins and a bit of stitch. continuing from here.

Aligned, and I am looking. Uncomfortable though.

Then, making the concept smaller, to explain, showing, and then, telling myself.

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Pulled apart. Unpinned.  Resting on a cloth I call the Nest of Days. Still informed by one another, through touch and logic. But free.  Entangled, still one, yet free and on the same side. 

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Quantum quilting

 

I suppose this one is just turning into 

an exercise

in connection.

One cloth, two sides. Now, just pinned, using the quilt math as a common reference. These could be two cloths, with two different homes, yet still be one. When one evolves sympathetically with another they are one.