Spirit Cloth

Forest

8:30 AM

Last night, In the muted cloud filtered moonlight, I was suddenly sitting IN one of Valerianna's paintings. I have one right here. On the wall in front of me. It wasn't rolled up but sandwiched between rolls of cloth to keep it safe.

Her calendars are on sale now, I love her work and the life she celebrates. The simple nature of it. Reminds me of Simpler Times. Simple is no small thing these days.

I'm going to take a few stitches. I'll put them here later...

Later... 9:35 AM

I put the eye there. Sooner than expected. You saw it, I didn't, but we are in this together. I have a whole stack of patches with new eyes. Ready.

 

a little woven story band

 

A day in the life of the three little bears squares.

Becoming, set free, resting, usefulness. Loved.   A good day.

 

And

One of my favorite weavers.

The little Japanese hand shears were a gift.  Aren't they lovely?  I love them.  I dyed the indigo wool as I went along.  Just enough.  Finger woven.  Very fine wool on a plied cotton indigo dyed warp.  Cozy feel.  More body than the silk warp.

Happy Monday.

Ding.

Cloth has wings

Cloth gives me wings.

Time to give back.  What if  I made a lot of these?  I did.   Just like eyes, you can't have too many wings.

My links have flown over to another page for safe keeping.   The PlaceKeeper is up in the top menu bar.  

Room to see

So now I am focused on looking around,  at all the beginnings, well , middles really...,  things in process that I chose to live with, out in the open.   All of them.  At the end of Magic Diaries, I decided they should all be out there.    Visible.    To get a feel for the volume of thought.   To understand context a bit more.     And this piece has grown from that.   What was once separate has begun to touch.   And  now it seems to be a little story of a bigger picture.    I renamed it room to see,  because it is about vision and space and  my sense of that.....  Of course this has required  the clearing of wall space.   Everything else needed to go. 

There was a sense of freedom in that (as well as a lot of holes in the walls).   And then, before the Vat became exhausted,  the butterfly was born.   I am trying to use  my new knowledge of shibori to create some other simple components, consistencies,  for my work, in addition to the moons.   Some symbols created in dyeing rather than stitch.   I like the sense of space that resist dyeing gives.   The simple  definition through  negative space.  To me I find it to be another way to divide space.   And in this way I think I have found a way to increase its usefulness in my story.   So far there is  the  moonflower and the butterfly.  I have a few other ideas,   but the Vat needs work.    Maybe I can manage some fresh leaf brews for some quick experiments.

I learned to dye with indigo from Glennis.   She also introduced me to shibori.   I put her link back in the side bar and now I have taken  it off again. I am rebuilding my links in a new space.   Things get cluttered so easily, we lose sight of them.

And now a little space here with posting as well,   as I ease  back into Diaries.  Not to mention it is a holiday weekend,  and My Son's birthday is mixed in there somewhere as well.

Spirit Cloth Diaries is my new long term continuous multi media teaching format Thoughts, notes, design development, techniques, etc. Teaching by example, story style. You can read more about it HERE.