Spirit Cloth

head in the clouds...

so clouds. and sky, and then  i imagined patchwork in space, it would be spaced out.

ok, rant gone, comments gone.

what a day.

see you tomorrow.

(sky fabric  by glennis ...stained with a tad of walnut,

sunny squares dyed by deb, a small square of batik rain by T. )

destiny?

destiny.

featured here, transition dyed indigo cotton by glennis dolce. in my sidebar and on my resource page.

a long day

or a long night. or both.  however you look at it.  a new star on some old blue, a moon applique (part of one) on some indigo dyed linen  and a square sunrise or sunset (a heavily embroidered fragment from earlier years (1970) stitched by me while goofing off in college). just a moment's reflection. aligned and held in place on some old kimono silk with thread. and a bit of silk fringe from indonesia.  a long place keeper. there will be a few things available in the shop tomorrow. not sure what time. cloth will float into the shop from now on, depending on the wind.

woad seeds. from here. they sure are pretty.  a good kind of weed to have i figure.

this morning, a cat thinking inside the box.

i will be getting rid of the cloth whispering page and moving things back here. one place , home, is enough. what was i thinking?  i will also be taking down my resource page, i am inundated with advertising requests and i don't want to be that. I will go back to linking when appropriate and use the category product reviews instead.  i plan to integrate what if and threadcrumbs as well...so some changes over here these next few days.  and summer hours planned. just some blog mending.

i will begin posting for 21st Century Rags tomorrow. for those who have already signed up, passwords will be issued late in the day. this is a whispering workshop, which means i will be dribbling things in over the next 2 months, but you can sign up anytime, follow along or catch up later...

later....

zap

we had a bit of lightning this morning.

that is always magic.

and then this arrived. from deb.

zing.

i'm charged.

flip flopping

So. What if the darker section is on top?  Ok. Snow, winter, right.  The snow is lighter but it fell to the bottom.  Ha!...There seems to be story in this kind of grounding.  I found this linen napkin scrap.  I love using corner details. And the hand embroidery could just be a ghost of a warmer season, or some snow covered foliage.  I like this variation. And also the scale change, isolating the figures in just one section, smaller, giving the season more power. and of course adding a moon perhaps. 

I like this one. A great way to use some old family heirloom scrap or even highlight some nice white on white texture or stitching.  Maybe just a lovely stitched version of the word snow.  I like that the snow could be a cloth focus somehow. A blanket.

So usually my next step will be this,  but because I am working ragged edge here, in addition to tearing the pieces instead of cutting, I will wash and dry all my pieces to encourage a bit more fray.  I find that if you don't want to use the washer and dryer, roughing them up in some hot water and then rubbing them roughly in a towel,  then hanging them in the wind to dry will get them to give up some loose threads and soften the edges a bit.   So I am off to wash up a few bits of fabric and I will talk a bit more about that step later.  Yes, I want to talk about that more. 

The new sketch and some thoughts if you want to save them for anything. PDF Sketch and story

and a link...Harem cloth

(this post is part of a series and is continued from here. ) And it continues here.