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 expanded vision.
...the first bed test reveals the relative size of the cloth. it remains long and narrow, some sort of bed runner. i like how the little point of the orange plane (where one of the eyes shines) is extending beyond the expected edge of the quilt. some sort of keeper. keeper of elsewhere perhaps? 

.....have you noticed too?.........at least on this warm corner, the similarity to fever, some cracks in the darkness are letting the light through and igniting a fire once again. i used the same flaming silk, thank you shula. again.

.....and while coma is getting used to its final home, i thought i might show you where fever lives. don't you love those pillow cases? and nemo's purple merlot floor? such a hot room. good thing because his landlord doesn't believe in heat.

hey! thank you all for all your support and comments on yesterday's post. i want to mention also that i am still in the process of sorting through links and redesigning the look of this blog. so if you have noticed that you have disappeared, it is temporary and you will be back.

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 space in my head to work... so i thought i would shake up my normal system of working. create some temporary confusion. make myself dizzy so i would have to stop to start again. i am over-dyeing most everything i have starting with thread. and since i have everything organized by color i am going to undo that. i hope to end up with a palette that has colors i have no names for and a stash that is just randomly aglow... something more instinctive without obvious order. my own order. with out the anguish of finding things.
i dip dyed over some cheap chinese variagated embroidery floss. little sections of the skeins a bit at a time in many different colors. its a rainbow like no other i've seen before. this has been a comfortable starting ceremony.

studio sunday and a lifetime guarantee

.....6 AM
.....12 PM
.....2PM
.....a bit later.

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 to do a bit of painting and fixing and i have moved a bit of my stuff to another room for better light and to get some stuff out of the mr. fix-it path.
.....as i started quilting the last edge of fever.. i remembered why i had left it till last. when a quilt gets big and you want to do some detailed quilting following shapes and things, it is hard to keep turning the quilt around and around so you can stitch in the right direction. spirals are the worst. so. i thought to myself, this is way too stressful and my wrists are hurting (getting old) so why not (or should i say what if?) just turn the stitch instead of quilt. well. it works just fine and there is added stitch interest as well. i am just putting the needle in where i comfortably can and taking it out the same way. and the quilting stitch goes this way and that . a new kind of meandering free motion hand quilting style which i am liking very much. it is quicker too. i am giving this away monday and i want some time to sew a label. slow cloth can only be so slow.