Spirit Cloth

Ways

Nine as a Cross(roads).

I could say many things about this. Many things about each square. Maybe later. Right now I am looking at the form.

This is another corner for Holding Pattern.  Where the rings of new space change direction. So the sense of holding can continue.  In the regular alternating light and dark nine patch there is no real direction. In this configuration there is choice as I see it.  Both configurations have center though. And that is another thing I like about the nine(lives)patch. Pattern is so much about light and dark. And alignment.

Each little square has a story as well. For me that is the spirit of the thing because it imparts a kind of life.  The bits of cloth and my relationship to them. The basis of Patchwork is building, holding. And making do. And making do is personal. Sometimes even about letting go. Going is about that.  Each scrap is a small journey. Scraps of self. And the conscious effort to piece things together brings a sense of becoming whole and useful again and again.

Offerings

Yesterday evening, I put this here...

This morning, this...

Seems we are on the path to a more familiar October.

I often refer to the long cloth format as PathWork. I think it will be a good month for that. Just Going. I have a lot of pathworks in process.

Not so long ago, path became my symbol for in between. Today I am thinking: like a thread that connects here and there. And asking: where shall I we go?

I played a bit today with some old drawings. Three separate ones here. As a collage, one, the thread/stitch, connecting the other two.  Just to use them in a new way. To remind myself how one thing is a path to another. And how sharing the way is also an offering, like a path not taken enough to become a road but then how it might become more with company. If we don't try to keep it hidden. We might all take it to somewhere. Have a picnic perhaps. Enjoy the view. Wander off to share the real story. Like the map it might be.

A new Pairing

There are two loves.

Well three, but we can leave the Man out of it for now.

The two. Cloth. And paper. Drawing really. Doodling mostly.

Both of them forever entwined with questions. What if?

 

 

So What If I combine them? They have almost always been one in many ways. But the thought today is simply to link them physically. As a process form. As ThreadCrumbs, to make the sharing more meaningful. This is my first prototype because really I am pursuing a little story book idea that goes way back.I have a lot of little experiments here that might become more useful.........

The other thing is there are some large cloths in process that complete my Sanity Series that must be worked on quietly out of public view for a while. So what if I return to the What If format for now? Some of you might remember that. I had a separate blog. But now not. Now here. Now that. Small cloth experiments. For a while.

 

 

 

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How words Spring forth.

 

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A Wishing Star with a Path Through it.

 

 

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Today's List

 

It's way warm,

warmer than yesterday.

The two rust spots on the cloth,

from where it was stapled

in a notebook.

1971.

 

Splitting hairs,

a single strand split back stitch

takes forever.

How many Forevers I've lived through.

Still, it seems

there might be more.