Spirit Cloth

And here we are...

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and 9

I was awake at 2 AM anyway.

Suddenly, upload speed.

Another Kind of Thread

Strings.

The Man spent some time untangling this puppet that made the journey here in a box with a lot of stray stuff. It was a time consuming effort. But now in working order.

It was so appropriate for these times really. As I ended up making a note to myself:

I've worked myself to the edge of the pieced area on one side of Holding Pattern. Working slow and steady, an hour in the morning with coffee, and hour in the evening before sunset. Up to here there are seam lines, blocks of space to help me not only keep track of progress but also provide a frame of reference. I am thinking I will have to continue soon, not knowing where I am.

Hunker Down Non-Sense

When someone asks, how did you think of that?

Where did the idea come from?

(I wanted to talk today but my batteries are dead.) 

Well sometimes I think I make up a story that might seem a little simpler than it is. More like something I can take credit for. Some thing I can own. Instead of telling the story as is. Because honestly, how it happens doesn't always make the kind of sense I expect. It's not a straight line or a path so easily followed. That is why process is so interesting to me. And why I tend to honor the in between more and more. Letting it be on its own. Because it is what I don't expect, or always give value to, that helps me understand how new form emerges. Eventually.

 

Loose thoughts. Loose patches. Loose implies free. Free to realign. Alignment implies a kind of useful harmony. Peace. Peace is a temporary state. It wears out. Must be mended. A life's work.

You can't teach creativity.

It's just there. You might simply try to make it more obvious how to find it. Demonstrate the usefulness of thought. 

If it's too large to grasp, make it seem smaller. Perspective. 

Today is an in between day. Letting thoughts out.

Wednesday is now Robe day.

Saturday is now quilt/Blanket day.

All the other days are like today. 

That's about as clear as I will get.  I have been listing Hunker Down posts in order in the sidebar under Hunker Down Diaries. Enough of that, the list might go on forever. No matter what they are telling us.  If you are following, you are following. I'm tired of organizing. Day by Day it is, till it isn't.

 

Light and Dark are magic

The shift is apparent. Might hit 80 here today. Just saying.

Note to self, before I go out to the garden.

Hunker Down and Keep Trying

Today's note to self...posting here, for now, well, it's ridiculous. But I know it's possible. Moments here, moments there, OK, it's a patchwork. Little bits at a time. Duh jude, figure out a way to hold it together. That's what you do. So less often, posts being built over a series of days. Content, in smaller pieces perhaps. In perspective, appropriate. 

 

The thing I like about cloth is that it seems kind.

You can make friends with it, it will cooperate if you give it's nature some consideration. Like working with anything,(anyone), it is basically an exercise in problem solving (not always JUST going), based on what you have to work with.  I often say ingenuity springs from a relationship based on patience and flexibility. Love, I guess. Yes, I just love cloth.

Cloth is like clay. I will be like Clay.

I had been slowly adding strips of that patchwork curtain to the front of the robe. I added one of the other pieced strips as well. but I moved the strip slightly, off it's original course, because cloth lets you do that...to fit the one side of the neckline. I like the gentle curve of the seams. How it flows. Seems to adapt to the situation. Seems to soften. Like gentle wind.

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I was already wearing Wind at this point. Getting know it. Walking, Sitting, even Sleeping with it. Oh Ha!

 

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I have been posting content from an old class, just wanting to finish up the basic approach to robe making as it applies to a large cloth base you might choose to work on. I will get through the basics of that soon and with May, move on to other forms of large cloth.  But know that all these techniques might be applied to a quilt type project as well.  My goal is never actually to lead you through something step by step but to inspire you to find your own comfort with problem solving. Offering my perspective.

As I look back, at any point, I might have taken another direction. Watching all of you doing your own thing reminds me how that might happen. 

Thank you for your patience as always...