Spirit Cloth

Preparation and loose plans...

All the large cloths are off the walls.

All the small things still in process are being unrolled and tacked up.

We will be on the road in June. Looking. Deciding. Dreaming new dreams.

Soul-o will go stay with my brother upstate.

I want to finish  and release all small work (too small to be a blanket). Except the Sanity Series.

Sometimes finished simply means OK, enough. Nothing more.

I just started. I am creating a showing (which I think is a kind of ceremony)of my unfinished work, for myself. I might have enough for all the walls. And then I will look. And say to myself. OK. Enough. And move on.

In early Fall we will leave for Turkey. To look and decide.  I will take a large cloth with me. To stitch on.

This seems how it will be . Today.

How Small Helps

Too much going on here.

Just can't get to anything.

Oops! Not so fast...

Just to keep Going,

Just to be here.

Wishing for a change of direction.

A red star.  A lot of color for me. But it was hot. I got caught up in the idea of a wishing star being a placeKeeper for a change of direction.

I'm back to what-iffing. Catching small thoughts in a new way. But I can talk about that later. Here, the star as a corner has caught me as an interesting arrangement. I made one sketch,there are others waiting in line. But the thread part is important. I pulled snippets of thread from the thread nest, because I save all those small thread ends. One by one, small pieces of color ended up in a nice blend and variation on red. But it also had me thinking about variegated threads in general. How so often the color repeat is too long, so on small areas you don't see the color change soon enough. You know what I mean? That's why I like  Deb's Threads.  Her crazy method of dyeing produces the perfect scattering of color. Way better than the commercial kind and even some of the hand painted threads I've seen. 

A red star then, practicing a few things for the Endless Wishing Cloth... and the reflection of a new day.

PS. I did rows and rows of split back stitch on the star points here. very close together.