Spirit Cloth

quilting and marking boundaries

an edge is like a temporary point of reference that defines perception. and i love looking closer and noticing the next layer of definition that always presents itself...like some sort of dance celebrating the spaces between the beats of your... Read more →

quilting unknowingly

.....i was thinking about how it is we learn and how i have so often perceived it as getting something and keeping it safe and making a pile of it so i could show it off or at least live... Read more →

unexpected growth

....i was amazed to find a patch of thriving green among the fading colors in the garden early this morning. and persistence is on my mind. little patches of green are creeping in along the edges of dark borderlines. i... Read more →

quilting and melting time

.....it is finally november and the warmth of the season has slowed the transition in scenery to an almost standstill. i watch this scene from the studio each morning, and today i see the smallest evidence of the sea through... Read more →

quilting with words

often i add words to my cloths. looking back at the lion quilt which i am planning to re-document here on the blog, each lion had a story and the words were all stitched on the surface after the quilt... Read more →

quilting purpose

slow cloth is something that grows with time. it contains so much story and so many thoughts. you could even say it contains an evolution of a sort. i learn and grow a lot in the process. and so when... Read more →

quilting the morning after

..... well it all seemed like a dream. monday this morning before work everything in the studio was calm and back to normal. .....until the the moment it came back on me... there are new edges everywhere...many confused glances on... Read more →

quilting a relapse

it is ironic that this year's slow cloth project started with a real fever and now that i am finishing it up i am sick again...feeling better today but sewing the ragged edge has me wrapped in fiery thought. i... Read more →

quilting fever and a warm chair

.....i am not feeling well today. i am keeping myself warm...sitting under the quilt while working on it. on a whim i decided to apply some ragged hand dye to add more fire to fever's edge. many many quilting stitches... Read more →

quilting priorities

this morning there was a chill in the air. and i was reminded that fall is a time to focus energy on useful things. with all this list making it was obvious that lists lead to prioritizing. fever is a... Read more →