Spirit Cloth

Cloth is again like a world

Poof.

Probably 20 years.

I have had this piece of silk. Not new at all when I came across it, tossed in the trash, seems to have been ripped out of some sample book at one point. Not uncommon to find such things while working as a designer in the textile world. Fashion folks are so wasteful.  It's special. Warp printed and jacquard woven with one color in the weft. And now I have cut it. Not sure what it had been intended for but at least I am using it. 

In the same boat, In the same world.  The velvet is indigo dyed over a bit of Mom's Wedding dress. That dress sure gets around. Some gaps to fill here and then some over stitching imagined. Inspired by that jacquard. This one has carried me. Us. From one place to another.

Across moons.

Some of you asked...

Mom.

In a pool of Silk Velvet.  The cloth mentioned in yesterday's cloth.

1949 I think...

And that cloth from yesterday,

now in the context of Summer's arrival.

How much season is part of us.

How it's going...

Probably just pics this coming week. And comments off.

Big Stuff sucking Time.

But I'm working on this one.

I've posted about liquid applique before. Here, again, silk shibori by Glennis. I've many cloth stories to share about silk.

But a new thought caught this morning.

The process could be considered a form of kindness, not cutting a cloth to fit and leaving too tiny a scrap to be used. Keeping the cloth together and useful.

I'm creating a mailing list for Patchwork in Perspective Part 1 and I'll be testing that over the coming weeks. Thank you all for your warm response. I am setting up a PO Box so I can publish a mailing address for those who prefer to pay by check. That information will be in the next Feel Free Newsletter.