Spirit Cloth

H was for Heart

And hand.

And now maybe hope.

The Alphabet Soup Quilt. In February, a lot of just going is planned before sleep. No showing or telling, just stitching. It really is about sweet dreams.  So long ago, this one, but it feels just right in these days. But these days will surely change it.

Nest of Days Goes as the Season

Outside. The ceremony I began so long ago. I hope that link worked. Things are wacky here.

I took the Nest Of Days cloth outside yesterday. For a snow wash and a lot of fresh air. I started it back at the other place and I wanted it to be part of here. 

This morning, 8 degrees, feels like -10. The earth is sleeping now. In its nest of days. And it looks like bigger snow and cold are coming soon. Going to stock up on food and settle in. 

I cannot post my audio or video or get much of anything to work consistently here. It's time to go. That is more easily said than done but I have begun the journey and I will Just Go. This place will be here for a while. I will disable comments which don't work for a lot of folks anyway. Maybe a few photos now and then. But the daily journey with cloth has officially moved to the Blog/Journal segment of Feel Free. Because I would like to continue, at least for now. You can remain subscribed here for the occasional LifeNote or not.  You can subscribe by email in the sidebar of Feel Free if you want to follow my creative journey in detail. Or if just pics are your thing, I will be on Instagram as well.

I will duplicate parts of this post over there and do a bit of talking, later today. Love you all, it's been swell here. Let's hope it will be "swell-er" over there.

Feel it

To Continue...from here

There was audio here. I could not get it to work. 

I give up on TypePad. Time to move on.

Try going over to Feel Free, I can't get the links to work here, click on blog/journal in the sidebar. The post should be there.

and so it goes

On the wall for a while longer.

And now, not. Ready to stitch/quilt the edge. On the Big Round Table, in the room that was named for the Big Round Table.  This cloth would make an awesome table covering. But it is a blanket. What if it could be both? 

Anyway, it begins.

Stand Up Applique

video on Instagram

Bigger Wishing

Another day, that's a start.

A soft wishing star on the Holding Pattern Cloth. Knowing that we ALL wish for something. Wondering then, how All our wishes can come true. Certainly there isn't much evidence of that working out. I wonder how that works? Renaming this the Hoping Star then. 

Stuff to deal with here, but trying not to make today about me.  I have replaced my computer. Yet, these troublesome times have me reconsidering people, places and things. I will take it easy for the next months. Finish this cloth by year's end. I am going to test some project pages over at my free teaching site. I will use this one as a test. 

This star was made from what I call Marshmallow dyeing. Soft edge dipping. I will be adding that to the Methods Index soon.

I was recently a target of unsolicited rudeness and baseless attack. Not the first time. It's the world we live in. Yesterday I slid right into it myself, wanting to retaliate. I made a rude comment back and then deleted it and closed comments realizing this person indeed began to attack you! After deep thought...I, WE, cannot let this happen. It's hard. Please help me. If you ever see any rude comments here, directed to you or me, Please just ignore them. We simply have to be a community that is better than that. 

Thank you.

Wine is on the menu this evening.

 

all one thing

Looking.

I altered these photos with a filter to make them look worn. I put a few pieces together on the wall. The ones within reach. When I do this, it is an exercise in probability. They will probably fit together. That is my Seeing theory... if I remain true to my vision. And then, you know, even if they are "new" they always seem like something ancient when they are put together as one. The filter was used to emphasize that.  They are just pinned over the cloth I call A DEEP Pool of Thought.

Last night I unfolded Holding Pattern. I am holding and will be holding this one now. It is a gift for My Son and The Woman, and I want to finish it before the end of the year.  I have been working on it for so long, it is an old cloth.

So now, just quilting, while I wait for a new computer.

The time it takes.

Just Growing

That's what the going is for.

 

The shift has taken hold, this is probably the last summer like day here. Typepad is tired, as grace said to me, and so am I. Sometimes you just have to move on. I will consider how to do that, but today I am just talking. 

 

audio link if you see no player.

(note, comments are off because I cannot see them, and I cannot comment back, and that is true with any other Typepad blogs I visit. I will continue to post pics at Instagram for now.) Found a temporary solution. Actually that's life.

Grow

I actually have a lot to say, but not today. Except it grew.

Open Air

Good Morning!

Always, there are open air ceremonies with cloth.

This one could be finished. But I know it's not. It is already useful as a blanket though.

All day hanging in the crisp September air, hoping no birds would shit on it. They always come sit on the clothes line. But yesterday was windy and hanging big cloth scares them away I think. 

I like how the two sides come face to face here. 

I will let this, HEAL aka Regenerate, rest. Turn my attention to GROW aka Reach. I'll rummage through what's here looking for something like compost.