Spirit Cloth

Filling a Space with a Field of Stitch

Stars are continuing.

Because I need a million and I am counting the ways.

The field of stitch is a nice less dense way, to create shapes, focus, and texture without covering the background. I discussed this a while back in Small Journeys, here, naming it at times in the past as Coloring Book Quilting and the Snow Globe effect.

It works well here, because I often use thread beads as stars, points of light I guess. And now the star is made up of stars. Stardust. This is an easy way to transform one shape into another. I can imagine other ways too, can you? There is a sort of vibrating outward going on. This resist dyed square is a bit bigger. 2" Still shibori dyed, and the center is a field of stacked running stitch (which is really a form of Kantha worked very close together). I've used fields of stitch so much, it has really become part of my stitching style.

I need to dye more of these larger squares. It's warm outside. I'll go check the vat.

Here is another star with a field of running stitch. The fields of stitch can be design and the quilting stitch at the same time. I love when design is useful.

Simple really, but so cool.

It just so happens that this piece will become the center of the Endless Wishing Cloth. A celebration in Old Sky.

Ha! How things eventually come together...

A wishing cloth is a great project. Make a wish, stitch it up, sew it on. It'll grow faster than you think. And it might be shelter from a storm.

A little talking, despite the construction going on in the background, towards the end. Somebody is building a house way too big for my liking. But hey, Feel Free I say.

 

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The Wishing Diaries then...

As We move Toward September

There was a bit of a stomach thing. Yesterday. I rested a lot.

I've walked through the garden. That's all.

It is turning. The beginnings of that.

Cooler nights first. And yesterday it did not reach 80.

I didn't do anything in the garden. I just passed through slowly.

These. New.

Just there. Just like that. On one of the Butterfly Milkweed pods. It took two years but it is well established now. So I researched red bugs on Milkweed pods. And that is them. Milkweed Bugs.  They were still right there this morning. They must like it there. They say it's ok. They just show up for  short while. They reduce the number of seeds for next year. Some folks spray. Some folks consider it population control. For MilkWEED. In any case I stopped at considering it a touch of Red. For now. We'll see.

A touch of Red is always nice with green.

I just uncovered this. Nine for Growth. Part of the Nine Forever Series. Which was something more formal but now it isn't.  From the post here, which was from Small Journeys (one of the free classes in the sidebar)  here, and then here.

This another example of "weaving into".

There are so many ways to do that. Cloth through cloth. Try it.

I think I might put a few Milkweed Bugs on this one and call it done enough. Nine for Growth. Or Staring Growth in the Face and Seeing it Look Back. Sometimes things keep growing without you. It might do that. It contains that. The going. Despite a few bugs.

Later.

And there they are. 9 of them.