Spirit Cloth

sunday square

I woke up foggy this morning, still dreaming with crossroads on my mind. And today a square is a frame that is formed when paths cross.

A woven nine patch, engineered with a center,  a sun in the clouds. Sun dyed by Deb , Clouds by Heike. Becoming more by being woven together.
The  crossroads series is just a little celebration of  paths crossing.

Let's sing.

just thinking

Thinking back actually. To this. And wondering. Thinking about squares, again, and wondering about communication. And yesterday, how squares were considered as a way to chart a storm. Time's storm.

Today. Mom's. More wind. Thoughts about just about everything at once. Especially this old thing. The remains of a table that dad made from leftover deck wood. Maybe 25 years ago.  What if it  becomes a loom?

what if...

So what if What If is just remodeled a bit?  As some of you might have noticed, there has been a password on the What If blog for a while. Some of you have inquired as to what is going on with that.  I have been redesigning it a bit to include some video.  My plan is also to host the Cloth Whispering series from there... because it belongs there I think.  I am actually starting the blog over again to make it more of a teaching tool and  to make it more organized and to integrate it with this Spirit Cloth blog.  So to make a long story short, I am changing things a bit, including my shop situation ( more on that soon)  and access to What if will be restored on September 1st if all goes well.

Here I suppose I was asking what if circles could be square? And that works here. A nine patch of silk dots, mostly tiny remains of Dolce ribbon stitched to a fabulous gifted and altered Fortuny print fragment from Phyllis. These are the smallest dots yet, 1/2", done in peekaboo applique which I will be demonstrating over at What If soon. A little bit of test Whispering. Thank you all for your patience with my never ending seasons....

the square's effect

Or keeps some sort of order. 

Susan has a new blog. And I really like this.

solid ground

Creating a framework for change can take the fear out of it. I am thinking about the shape of context.

the square that you don't see

...i have been rearranging some old sky.

...and like most things i rearrange, there seems to be some personal order involved.

i realize that even way back when i was drawing, there was always some invisible gridded square in the background, some square of squares guiding the placement of elements. it was always there but i didn't see it. so today i realized the square can be invisible and still be a square.

cubed

dice...i collect them. today i am just focusing on the dimension of their squareness. and remembering this...

square diaries

i am back to it... and thinking morning can be a square.

after a storm

...it is always nice to go down to the shore after a storm.  on that first bright day. to see what has been tossed around.  and i was looking for some new squares. the sand had washed right up onto the boardwalk,  and i enjoyed how the swept away met the lined up and orderly . and, of course, at the same time, i was loving the mended square...

...then i caught site of the curved grid of the trash can and its fabulously distorted shadow that fell on the newly curved sand-scape. i thought about how a square can look different depending on your point of view. and i didn't fail to notice the edge it seemed to reflect the sky's indigo blue...

...and so naturally, when i got home, and looked at this little sample, i thought about that some more. now a new storm is brewing...

transformation

what if squares were spread out and small in relationship to the background?  squares floating in space can become dots.