Spirit Cloth

undoing darkness

...the eyes on the coma cloth are wide open and have taken the form of the sun in imagery. as the season progresses i can't help relating to the edges of the day being pushed outward, creating some sort of... Read more →

undoing a palette

.....i am starting slowly. last year's fever was about frenzy. momentum. screaming a cloth into existence with a sharp awareness of intent. this year's coma is about reversing that. i have realized that i need to create a more empty... Read more →

studio sunday and a lifetime guarantee

.....6 AM .....12 PM .....2PM .....a bit later. Read more →

quilting and taking it easy

.....we had quite a bit of snow last night. it is still snowing today. it cold and windy and icy. .......a good day to think. a good day to finish a quilt. .....we have been using the winter indoor days... Read more →

yesterday

.....yesterday was a day that i thought about how things come together. yesterday i renamed her 'walks among shadows'. WAS. because that has a story built right in. ....yesterday that lion from the past established some territory on the back... Read more →

stitching an open wound

.....such a tumultuous few days since that big moon.....i thought it appropriate to tend to the reverse side of fever and close up some of the scars of the process. patching together all the old and new quilt sections left... Read more →

quilt as a slow journal

.....the colored layers of the winter sunrise makes me remember how dad used to lay colored wash over wet paper to begin his watercolor paintings. fever has come to document a strange year. a year filled with layered change and... Read more →

quilt years

.....so it has been almost a year and the countdown for the end of fever continues. unexpected commotion on the edge has me seeing dots spots. now i am wondering, just how long can this fever last? Read more →

quilting a new twist

reeling a bit and back to spinning.....i have started to experiment with a layer of that magic thread. very freely stitched over marker lines. all the embroidered embellishment now is going all the way through. so this is an added... Read more →

the significance of detail

.....so as i move across the surface of fever i continue to slow down. i am taking an even closer look, yes and noticing all the meeting points and remembering all the good times putting the pieces together. this of... Read more →