Spirit Cloth

She is OK

 

In other wor(l)ds, I am ok...

Or she stands for that. She rests on another cloth for now.

I'm ready to explain a lot of the unexplained.

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...of course I'll be talking too, one thin(k)g at a time.

Too much computer these last days... a few days off.

 

7:14 AM

Drawing from cloth. Noting how the vertical turned, becomes landscape like in it's horizontal form. But here, the already landscape becomes another landscape. The points like arrows point to the moon.

Form and intention are linked.

7:48 AM

9:58 AM - back from the dentist

2PM

My mind wanders.

5:15 PM  Sun Moon Stars, the original class, open.

Frame

A simple thing. Especially in quilt design.

Today more than simple.

 

I did this. Like I do sometimes to make the cloth big enough to put in a hoop because I was thinking I might have to do that depending on how the tension played out. But then I thought how quickly it became bigger. And then how easily it could become smaller again. And then I began to think about the dynamics of a frame. How it might be a changing element.  How often it is a hard edge to limit focus and contain and control context. But the frame as a space seemed to melt into some precious thought about holding center. And radiating outward again. And I am remembering an unfinished focus on windows a while back. What if Diaries? So anyway, some jottings and a direction I might collectively call Window Quilting. Obviously to be continued.

Note to self: How the morning made the blue so electric.

This cloth continued here.

Wandering like Home

I suppose Path and Home have crossed over in my mind today.

I did do some stitching. The center panel is eco printed silk. You might find out a lot about the Eco Print process by looking into the books by India Flint. The only departure here is that I cut the plant material (in this case onion skins)into shapes because leaf prints are not my thing and everyone is doing that at this point. Right? Just trying to find my Way. I don't feel it is my place to teach this process. India is listed on my Placekeeper page under Wander and not Get Lost. I made a few jottings today. To gather my thoughts. Noting more than ever how they cross over. And Patchwork has surfaced again in more of a story form. I continue.

Ultimately I arrived here. With the Heart's Path at the center of Home. Now configured as some easy going Log Cabin arrangement. And I think I will leave the center block framed by a softer raw edge by simply making that seam inside out.  Normally I might entertain doing these long seams on the machine. But I put the machine away for good. A long hand stitched seam is more like wandering than running toward a destination. So I will do a bit of that.

Notes to self:

1-The log cabin block is very much like a basket.

2-Seams might be used as personal symbols in some way.

 

 

 

Home Alone

Room for words today.

I didn't fly. I was not feeling good about that. The man has urgent business to attend to. I don't celebrate Easter. I remember Mom. Her jelly bean trails were a bit like my nine patch. They helped her feel good. Move through something.

I am playing with layering drawings. While we watch for April.

So today, worried, silly, chilly but warm enough.

Quietly sorting out confusion.