Spirit Cloth

Turning

So here comes the sun.

And the sense of warming that spring sun brings.

I like this picture above because of it's simple composition that includes the corner sun we draw as kids. Did someone teach us that?

I spent some time stitching on the Bird Robe yesterday. Just continuing with the quilting which never seems to finish. I've worn it for like 15 years now and  it is still basted in many places. It's form as useful need not be finished in traditional standards and that thought is very key to my perspective these days.

And these days are becoming overfilled.  I will be away from here, mostly, now until class begins in April. Some pics on Instagram. I'll be in touch with all you Rag-mates and Piece-makers as things evolve.  And I'll be back here again full time with the new month when this place will again be a journal of days and the Gateway to Patchwork in Perspective/ part 1.

 

The Way it Might Fit Together...

So now it's way cold.

Not complaining, just saying.

I'm just sitting with this one. Wanting to do a video but it's just too cold in the studio. And not good at the phone video thing yet. Because we thought we wouldn't be here we didn't cut our own wood this year. Wood here is expensive and even more so this season, a story about that later. So not heating the studio.

I cut away the cloth around the figure because i was intending to make a pillow and then I thought... I don't need a pillow. So now it's a long cloth, a pathwork.  I added this piece to the bottom, because it was there, like a puzzle piece. It just fit there.

This piece of cloth is old. You can see how it has faded. It was a pillow cover for a while. Sun washed. I got this cloth long ago on a trip to Paris. When I was working in the textile industry. Shopping for ideas to present to fashionable folks. And ideas for my mill to develop cloth from. Another cloth story to be told in detail soon. For now, it fits fine here. And I left the bottom edge open so I might slide some fringe in there. Like I do. To say "continuing".

And yes I did weave the cloth beneath. Right around 1974.

I plan (ha) to send out another issue of the Feel Free Newsletter  early next week.  Please, if you subscribe to this Newsletter, use an active email address. I have decided to begin this year's Sharing Series in February.  I think I will start on my birthday. Details will go out in the Newsletter.  This series is not Free. But Free Enough, which changes in the context of my ability to live on thread alone.

 

 

Staying Light

I cannot tell you enough times how important lightness is to me. Cultivating that and sharing that. Always be able to laugh. Lighten up. It puts things in perspective.

It's foggy here this morning. And summer is drooping. I do love fog. I love how it is a kind of darkness and lightness at the same time. How it softens the hard edge and expands the in between. How it just appears and then disappears as if it was never there.

The woodshed is still empty. And I have a lot of stuff I'd rather not be doing today.