Spirit Cloth

Earth Yellow

The mellow yellow of the pomegranate dye is developing nicely after being heated and cooled for a few days. Adding more skins as I go, the walnut part of the dye becomes less influential. I've yet to find a source... Read more →

Hanging

Hanging here, these small loose favorite things, I used to dress up this ugly chandelier when I moved here...(do you believe we are almost a year in?) they have come to be quite handy in these stay at home times.... Read more →

Softer Yet

Big Beautiful Fog this morning, in waves, coming and going. Clarity, Blur-ity, Clarity, Blur-ity. I have named her Dear. We've cleared some of the small brush and saplings on one side of the property, leaving the mature growth. There is... Read more →

Bigger Wishing

Another day, that's a start. A soft wishing star on the Holding Pattern Cloth. Knowing that we ALL wish for something. Wondering then, how All our wishes can come true. Certainly there isn't much evidence of that working out. I... Read more →

March tease

Almost 70. Yesterday. Ha, like me! Rain, sun, wind, fog. No snow. That's coming next along with cold. The Japanese Andromeda bloomed. Must have been overnight. Reminding me that life goes on even when it doesn't. New York, they say,... Read more →

Smaller

The deer. Among clotheslines. Closer than before. A group of young ones wandered through. Or maybe they are just smaller here? They are more grey, less brown from the other place I no longer call home. Very hard to see... Read more →

A Studio Day

A warm one. Before another polar vortex. I put my winter bitch in the closet. I will build one small fire, warm up the stove. Since the sun is out, that's enough for the day. On a lighter note, this... Read more →

Some Old Thing

Years and years ago, I made this patchwork for a pillowcase. I gave it to my mother. It was one of my first patchworks where I departed from commercial fabrics. In fact the yellow squares at the border are cut... Read more →

Shining Through

Heart that is. This one is my fave, so far, dyed over Deb's color and heart cloth as I call it. Because her heart is always in it and I love that. Read more →

Component- Butterfly

Component. The word I use so much. I used to use element more, but component is so related to compose. And then compound. In any case as it relates to traditional patchwork quilting, my beginnings with cloth, building blocks. But... Read more →