Spirit Cloth

How it is

When things fall apart ... ...it helps to notice the ones that still hold together. It's hard for me to sit in a chair all day. The ankle swelling has subsided but what an ugly foot. Sure is hot. Read more →

Love and Season

And home. Those 3 things. Three things aligned can create direction. Path. Story. The Holding Pattern quilt is holding other patterns at the moment. The center is stitched. I love letting my eyes stand at the edge where stitched meets... Read more →

first stage quilting

No Sun Day

Quilting. By lamplight. It's raining. video link if you see no player Dentist tomorrow. Read more →

The Idea

It's just tacked to the wall for the moment. To reinforce the idea of a more invisible holding. Quilted yes, some of it, but looking head on, without shadow, not apparent. Because I am using a sympathetic coloring book quilting... Read more →

How a day moved through

Wood stacked. There was even sweeping! And I managed to expand the silk lining. Now I can begin "walking" around the center. The stitch in the center is settling in. As it does. Eventually the ripple ripens. As the layers... Read more →

Early Quiet

Cold. Waiting for a wood dump which will take up most of the day. Stacking. Thinking mostly about how what I stitch (make)(do) catches thought without having to say so. Thinking how what we do simply reflects how things move... Read more →

I just continue

The other side of Holding Pattern is being lined (as mentioned here...) with thin cloth and then hand dyed vintage silk, patching as I go. Patching, quilting, patching. Rocking. Silk stitched closely and carefully to cotton. They come together as... Read more →

Quilting

I'm quilting the center panel on the Holding Pattern cloth. I quilt with intention. The intention of holding. And not being limited by that. Intention must not be static. I'm gathering memories and I am remembering this. (Q is for... Read more →