Spirit Cloth

Hunker Down with Perspective

 

Basted. Just regular old big stitches. No knots, from the thread nest, later to go back to the thread nest.

Just to say OK, let's try this.

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The weather is warmer and now I don't need to worry about the room with the window that is too high to see out. I have a new design wall without edges. And lots of light.

Big Cloth, now small cloth...just had me thinking about scale...we think we are so important but we are so small in the scheme of things.

It took most of the day to do this much, just pinned in place  there is about 12", give or take, around the edge. Just trying to sew scrap end to end with the minimum amount of cutting. You can use any kind of seaming method, even a sewing machine. I am hand stitching using the fold and stitch method here, I don't have a sewing machine anyway. I am using a foundation method here, let me talk about why that has evolved for me.

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The oaks are flowering, allergy alert.

Wishing

On the move...

Note, I may miss your emails, I'm half baked.  Just remind me if it is important.

How it's going...

Probably just pics this coming week. And comments off.

Big Stuff sucking Time.

But I'm working on this one.

I've posted about liquid applique before. Here, again, silk shibori by Glennis. I've many cloth stories to share about silk.

But a new thought caught this morning.

The process could be considered a form of kindness, not cutting a cloth to fit and leaving too tiny a scrap to be used. Keeping the cloth together and useful.

I'm creating a mailing list for Patchwork in Perspective Part 1 and I'll be testing that over the coming weeks. Thank you all for your warm response. I am setting up a PO Box so I can publish a mailing address for those who prefer to pay by check. That information will be in the next Feel Free Newsletter.

Pieces of Days

Just a glorious morning.

Cold with that promise of warmer. Even if it's a long way off.

Here I am, in the same spot. Almost waiting for spring. But there is no need. For it will come Eventually.

I did a bit more quilting on Holding Pattern last night but showing you every stitch will get a bit boring so let's let that ride for a while.  It takes a lot of stitches. This patchwork base was in the shop for a bit but I caught it before it flew away and decided there was more story here for me to tell.  I just added a tiny bit of red silk fringe that appeared caught on the bottom of the scrap basket. Set it free. I've pinned the whole patched fragment to a longer piece of cloth. More space, room for going. What I originally loved here was the imperfection of the dyeing and how the wings seemed to be appearing or disappearing, how the form was in transition.

We feel this will be our last winter here. Change is in the air. And I will call this little long cloth that. Change is in the Air.