Spirit Cloth

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 we could get it together.

And walnuts are dropping.

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 work keeping.

Dots. Like an excavation. This is turned reverse applique which you find in the Applique Lesson of Spirit Cloth 101. Here.

Cloth Weaving  makes the the layering element(a kind of alignment) in the weaving process more apparent. When you weave with thread or yarn it is hard to notice how it is the process of appearing and disappearing that creates the structure as well as the pattern possibility, the magic. And with the cloth method, the layers can be manipulated in a different way.  I like this built in layering of cloth. Being able to sense it, it lures me into playing with it. There is new form always waiting when a technique is reconsidered.

I have a bit of work to do, to put the process index back on track for Feel Free. But it will be ok. Just tweaking things and keeping it more simple and less ambitious (that disease that has to be kept in check). The Feel Free site will be back up in a month or so. As simply a methods index. A Glossary. Just to make things easier to find. I'm sorry, this stuff takes a while to settle. And again thanks for kind donations to those folks that I never seem to find by responding through Paypal. Love you all.

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.

The surroundings are doing a lot of the doing at the moment. I'm drinking it in.

This is the ninth trial. So guess I can say, yes, avocado leaves print green. On old silk, wrapped around a can and steamed for about an hour. I'm not seeing any fading or color change.  I'm going to do another round. My avocado tree is now 11 feet tall. From a pit! Too big to put outside this season. It drops leaves now and then. Thank you.

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 course.