Spirit Cloth

Frame of Mind

In the context of Sanity.

That's how to pull it together. That's what popped into my mind.

A heart's path is my chosen Travelling Companion. I'll stitch on that. A past post here. The framing.

A bit of clarity (aka blur-ity) moved through last night.

I began creating patchwork frames.

For when you don't know where you are going. And you just need a frame of reference/self.

 

Frames of mind I'll call them. From 1", 2" and 3" squares. Stitched simply from simple cloth, contrasting seams To honor the building. The style I am using for the Sanity Series. I think they will be useful. Sanity is connected to Frame of Mind.  These will help me look at all my cloth things in the Context of Sanity. They are windows. New Eyes. Space Keepers.

I'm doing a fast this coming month. This month that might embrace change. A Web fast. To cleanse my mind. My mind is cluttered. I will not be posting anywhere. I'll leave the "shop stuff" to my brother to manage, or not, as time allows. He just moved and he is busy settling in. I will check my email now and then from my phone. We'll be here and there really, and maybe even elsewhere, if only in my mind.  And I'll see you in July. Most Likely.

Note, since I issue passwords for the protected Feel Free content personally, there might be a delayed response during the month of June. Thanks for your patience.

 

Poof! then.

 

 

Looking through my Windows

Still warm, not filling the feeders much yet.

Just a few crumbs so they might practice knowing where to come.

A bit of thinking about how looking is not always seeing. If seeing means knowing. But all that became very confusing since knowing is really more like believing what you see.

So I stitched a bit on Window Woman. Even calling her Eye Woman for a moment.  They are so related.

Tried to create a sense of perspective by using the spacing between the square rings vibrating outward around the little nine that becomes heart over and over.

And I drew this for the News and Help page for the new Feel Free Classroom site which I sort of completed yesterday as well.  I will probably open it sooner rather than later. Even though it's really nowhere yet.

Nowhere yet. Something to practice getting used to.

Windows

The indigo dyed components I am creating these days are following a list of concepts that form a personal system of symbols and picture language. I'm making them into simple units. Building blocks. To continue and clarify the story connections.

I considered windows a while back in What If Diaries. And I have a lot of unfinished work here relating to that adventure.

This was my first doodle for that workshop. I always start by storming.

So there are loose dyed window patches here.  And last night, this...

I built a small cabin around a window patch. Wondering if? it would still read as a home or a house without the classic addition of the triangle roof. I pinned it to some old something. Old somethings have become places to rest. And all of a sudden I felt Window Woman emerging. Maybe the keeper of home-sweet-home. A window as heart then.

Today the windows are closed. Already. Against heat and humidity and we hope we won't melt before this weather breaks. No AC here. Too many folks down by the sea so I think we will just squirt each other with the hose now and then. And pick wild raspberries. To celebrate our anniversary.

The corner of the wedding quilt made before I was blogging.