Spirit Cloth

Yellow Earth

Maybe snow tomorrow. The season's first Earth Yellows. Saving them for something. Read more →

The Shift-O

Feeling it... We had to replace the old stovepipe joint last spring. There it is like a big root vegetable in a summer soup. Looks ready for something. The little stone house we wanted to buy got snatched up before... Read more →

Layers

Cloth Weaving with plant dyed scrap. Dyed here. This place. A kind of Home Base then. For the shop. And then not. Because it became a place to be for a while. Nine. Nine dujour. I think it's a habit... Read more →

Green Saturday

Just thinking how I feel lately like there is no time for anything. Nothing is getting done. But in the course of a day, so many things get done. It's hard actually, to find the time to count them all.... Read more →

Another Spring here. Being outside will be very important to me this time around. Dandelion. Maple flowers. I'll stick to solar dyeing. Bits of old silk. Make a little cloth. Eventually. Maybe call it the the Last Spring. Here of... Read more →

How it seems to continue...

Sometimes. What we want need needs rethinking. Confusion continues as we rethink so many things here. Mostly triggered by aging and what that might mean in terms of comfort and challenge. We speak to each other about how being two... Read more →

Like Magic

Poof. The snow disappeared. Another morning, near 60 degrees. By this evening, another deep freeze. It's amazing that sometimes science is used as a near antonym for magic. To me they are nearly the same. More about that another day.... Read more →

Big snow Big cold

Blizzard watch. Woke to snow. Will most likely sleep to snow. Big wind coming. Power up and down. Just keeping warm. Used the last walnut and pom dye. Just to use it. Before I shut the studio till spring. Yesterday's... Read more →

Suddenly and not so suddenly...

Good Morning... All of these are muslin. Except the one on the right. Some old silk. Silk and wool dye deeper. I'll dye some wool for weaving. I'm considering, imagining silk for the back of Holding Pattern. I think I... Read more →