Spirit Cloth

Well, Hey

9AM here.

10AM...quilting with coffee and thinking.

10:30 AM, the late indigo is struggling to set seed, a good chance of first frost looms.

I wonder if I have enough light inside for it to continue? I want skylights, more windows. But I need to get the chimney fixed. Grow lights maybe? 

So ok, comments show if I use my phone browser for now. Plans to make some changes, but for now, just going. Dealing with it. My struggles seem small really. Summer Bitch is fading, Winter Bitch is waiting. It's a renewable resource.

This week was like Fog

There is big heat coming this weekend. 

Humidity is already building.

Every night I fold the Holding Cloth. Puzzle side out.  To rest.  Every morning now, I spread it out to continue coating of the other side around the already quilted center

My basket of thread ends and pins has become a knot of stuff. I will sit and address that when it gets too hot to move.

This table is 72" across and this cloth is much bigger. I am not going to measure it. I know it is big enough.

I was rather disappointed that I did not have enough indigo dyed silk scrap to do the border. Not a problem really.  I have rummaged through to find bluish greenish thin cloth and I am making do. Not silk but thin and fluid. Using up a lot of cloth on this one and that's fine with me.  I just want to get everything in place so I can quilt this one once the weather begins to cool. Maybe fireside if we can get the chimney fixed. Finish it before year's end. 

I sent my son a text. He is working so hard and seemed way overwhelmed when I talked to him last.  I asked, u ok? u seem overwhelmed. I got no answer for a day. Felt worried. Then, suddenly early this morning... I am both OK and overwhelmed.  That was just heartwarming. 

Days are Days

Things are things.

I could not be here until today. There was a fiber optic break in the area, no internet.

Then Big Storms. More rain than I ever imagined. Lightning. Thunder. Heat. Humidity.

Then the power went down. Other stuff. Typepad. Water in the basement. Things.

Today, new things.

But there have been days.

I took my own teaching to heart. In spare moments, catching up on the pairings that I put together since I began them a while ago. After the death of George Floyd. Forty Three is the name of this cloth now. After sewing half naked on the porch feeling blue. Today's Pairing will make it 44.

It's already a blanket.

And I picked this one up. In the Thick of It. Worked on developing a broader vision. Added fringe for continuing. 

Still stormy and steamy here. Still technology issues. Still blue and wondering if it is because I keep trying to keep things the same. I think I am fighting with what needs to be. I have many thoughts but I think I will just go make some coffee. With ice. 

Still Wednesdays folks, Summer Hours, some Instagram in between. 

 

lightness

 

ok.

regeneration.

it's this kind of day