Spirit Cloth

Hunker Down on the Edge #2

Like I said yesterday...

I usually take one of 2 approaches when binding an edge. Turned or ragged, but mostly binding the front openings of  simple garments is just like adding a simple seam binding to enclose and strengthen the edge.  A place that gets a lot of wear. The place where outside meets inside. With a bit of imagination, it could be decorative and functional at the same time.

The basic turned casing is the strongest and most common.

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A simple solution.

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So far pinned.

A little more about edges edges from another class that was not about garments...all these techiniques cross over really, you just adapt them to your own situation.

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If you want a more padded edge you can add another layer of cloth  or use a thicker fabric.  Once I used a strip of old quilt with the batting still in.   OR  you can sew  one binding over another.  A lot of times that happens from repeated mending.   You see the result of that on a lot of old boro garments.  For Wind, I wanted a thin edge.  At least then.  I never finished the Kimono Shirt.  I was naming it East-West. And I had plans to weave into it. We'll see...

Have a good weekend. Blog issues will keep me busy. Hopefully next week Typepad will feel like cooperating and I can continue...I want to start a quilt. 

Can you read this ok?

hunker down diaries.april.13.2020

Dawn.  Rain, small wind.  I wonder who is watching?

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...there might be a lot of journal here, should I do pdfs?

My voice is a bit off, audio tomorrow if the power is still up.

Just Do Something

Just sitting idle, focusing how hard it is to get started is a sure fire way not to get started. Yesterday I sat around tangled up in that. I went back to nine, which , because I have come back to it so many times, has become a circle. Imagine that. I use Nine to find a way.  I begin with a square. Probably we all have something we love. Start there. Love is a seed.

This morning I sketched this. I thought I can stitch this. One square in the middle that can be lifted up like a page. Actually I could put a few layers, like a little book in the middle. Actually this could work with paper too. Actually, that might be a great class. Cloth to Paper. I can get so easily ahead of myself by Thought Catching. That used to confuse me but not anymore. It just leaves me floating in a sea of possibility, and a sea can be like a liquid basket. Evolutionary. I miss the sea honestly. But floating helps.

She becomes a Bridge

This works right now.

I need one. A path from one thing to another. To fill in a Widening Gap. Now I can imagine being one. My self as a bridge between selves. I worked from that digital drawing from yesterday. Without looking back at it.  Her lower half, drawn in. Above her, stitched. I almost said "only sky". To myself.  How one thing becomes another always seems quite simple but it's not. Not if you know the story.

Here I am, with a fine list of Piecemaker/Ragmates, already enough to build a ring of safety. I will go through my emails in the next days... and to keep it simple on this side, answer you only if you have had questions and give you mailing instructions if you need to mail a check. Just to be clear, you can sign up anytime, pay any time (or not)and passwords will be sent a week before the Series begins.  If you want to attend, please remember to fill out the form by clicking the link in the Newsletter.  LINK TO NEWSLETTER. And please only pay/sign up for Part 1 because the rest is still forming.

I'll be quiet for a while now.

Here is Soul-o becoming a basket.