They began that way.
Then I thought...
Stitch by stitch. Eventually she becomes visible.
Yes, stitch by stitch, I make myself visible. I suppose I could just as easily pull them all out. I left some loose ends just in case.
It's September. Imagine that. Already. Poof.
Many arrangements were washed away with the day.
I ended up with this.
She. Still standing. Not swept away. Washed by it, that which flows through. Kantha legs are strong.
The additions are all silk. Which started with the foggy silk moon, veiled in summer leaves, a reflection of the moody day, the dot itself in sympathy with the house of time passing. The background in sympathy with blue already there. Blending.
And then the river. Nobody does flow better than Glennis. I love her shibori silk ribbon because of that, and how it is so liquid. You can make it flow around anything, if you have the mind to try.
I imagine there will still be wings. It's not time yet.
The center of Endless Wishing is basted.
All pins are gone. Like most larger cloths I often quilt the center before I extend it. Not always but often. I do this because it is easy to get at. Easier to handle. And often how the center is stitched sets the tone for the rest of the cloth. Again, just my approach.
I will still need to sit with the cloth and consider it's weight and thickness, before stitching. Perhaps I'll talk about managing layers a bit. But I just added a video to the QUILTING page over at Feel Free. Part of my organizing. I used a similar collage method in the video and I will use a similar quilting method here. The video has been included here as well:
Kantha Style Quilting from Small Journeys