Spirit Cloth

Over Time

...they Became Like a Tree.

A Typepad glitch is keeping me from viewing and replying to comments, here and on other Typepad blogs. So, comments off and I am going to take some time away and get lost in some details.  The stray cat series has evolved into the stray selves series, realizing that I may contain a whole spectrum of beasts to deal with. I need to consider this more deeply anyway. 

And in the News, Feel Free is not closing but will be temporarily down for a while so I might fix a few things, I will be reopening the Spirit Cloth Shop soon, it is now sweater weather, and Grace's Hill is still there. The winds have shifted,I hear the smoke may reach NY. 

Day 11

Good Morning,

Soul-o likes the ledge that tops the half wall that looks down into the FireRoom. He is watching for the deer.

This part of the split level arrangement I like too.

The ledge begins soon after the sitting table area, which is a little box that juts out from the side of the house. 

Any way, while sitting, there is another eye level for hanging.

I hung Lightning Woman. Woman Series. Resting. I just basted her to get the pins out.

Then zing, just a drawing over the photo, to catch that thought.

I think I might stitch on her today. Busy weekend, so won't be back till Monday.

Named it.

Must be at least 10 years, hanging here in view.

Organizing a Shift

about 21" square, 1/2" squares.

I do believe this one was part of the sanity series

before I even considered sanity as a series.

I am currently packing up my work, which is always in process if I have not given it away or sold it.  I will carry all of it to the new place myself. I'll roll it into a big roll and hug it all the way there.

Hope you are all well.

How it Seems

Maybe it's the reality of uprooting...

that has me reconsidering change as simply shift...

The thread that runs though it is a place-keeping device.

Solstice, Cloth,  past and present, now future...like season, still has a sense of home in it. 

I took the cloth of solstice past off the wall, realizing that by itself I could call it finished, but together with this new one, which is an old sun moon stars base, well together with this one it is just a step toward tomorrow. I love the similarities,consistencies and the differences.  How the today cloth has a less structured grid. And how the circle holds it together.

How they could be connected physically, how they are connected even if not.

And then how both of them are loose patches, components of a lifetime of considering shift. Season. 

On the lighter side, it's been raining for days. Maybe I'm  just wishing for more than one sun. 

Am I confused?  You bet.

Whoosh Revisited

Hello. Again.

The only picture I thought to take...

I stitched a bit on a cloth after returning home. Home? Mostly because I was too tired to sleep. You know.

Right now I am considering pillow.  I need a place to rest.  Some of the velvet from Mom's wedding dress is patched into this one. A soft spot.  She was always one to say relax, think positive and everything works out...

I'm talking about about that in class today.  Keeping at it...with thoughts of letting it move through...

And yes, I will continue with part 2. Maybe with a bit more space between patches.

Not Sure

Just stitching.

Trying out an idea.

Based on some Joodling.

Not sure about anything. Maybe I could call it that?.  Maybe I could call everything that.  A series.

It's all been that. Loose days. Connected by the thread of that.

Not sure about anything #1 then.  But in reality more like 1 million and one.

Mat Cloth

Nine works so well for framing.

Because it has a center. 

This is the format I have used for a lot of the small pieces in the Sanity Series. In fact anything I put in this format immediately brings clarity of a sort.

It's like a cloth framing exercise. A Mat.

How striking this one looks now. Yet it redefines the Gallery Thing in a way, doesn't it? In the context of framing...softer, do you like it? I'm working toward a showing. 

 

Holding and Letting Go

Sanity

is probably somewhere in between.

 
I guess I have spent a lot of time trying just to define sanity for myself. In order to make the pieces in this series fit together like a puzzle. The puzzle being me. I think today I have arrived at one more place that brings clarity to the journey. I said to myself, you have to believe in something, I narrowed it down to I believe in thought.

I've been low about nothing specific. Down. For at least a day. That's about how long it lasts.  Lucky for me?  Not really. Dad once said to me that depression is a faulty memory.  Work on that, he said. Remember. Be skillful in remembering. There was always a time before the joy was lost.

I call this small study Sanity Grows.

Suddenly

I think it could be a series. Suddenly.

Because that is how it is going. How it might happen.

I try to focus. Then, suddenly, I wander off. 

Like the weather here in April. It became so warm, like summer, so quickly. Then just as quickly, suddenly, POOF!, it's a bit more like early spring again.

Bits of me seem to be scattered everywhere.

I stitched a few together without worrying about why. And this time just enough stitch to hold the thought together.

Suddenly a Butterfly

 

April will be like this. The weather. And Me. Too many little things suddenly need to be addressed. I'll try to make the best of it. Them.

Another wish formed. Fireside, even though there was no fire. I've been stitching on the squares I talked about here.

The little spaced out nine in the center is another little symbol that developed a while back. A sense of order. I think I might be able to radiate outward and still hold that sense.

Perpetual Center of Perpetual Grid 1

I am stitching cloth graph paper in a way.

Several versions. This one will take the longest because it is being hand pieced.

It will be square. I am working in rings. Arranging the seam color that way. A square basket, with 9 holding center. I am using what I have. Glad to be using it. Adding at least 9 squares a day until it  fills the wall it will hang on.

There is no need to add a backing in order to use it as a design/measuring tool. But I will. Because I feel this effort , this set of cloths, is a set of blankets for me. Something quite important to my sanity. A needle chant. I will work on this series (now the final leg of the Sanity series) in the background, not much to see really. I will show my progress once in a while. And share my thoughts about its value to me.

 

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I am going to paint a grid on the wall as well. To use now.

12:31 PM- And I just added 9 plus a few more. The square ring lines in black, I like them.