windthread

closer still

 

the strip on the far side will be finished tonight or tomorrow. the strands of
silk gauze wind will be returned to where they were before i decided to do this
kantha stitching. that will not take long.

this feels so good for so many reasons but i will write about that
when it is finally finished.

resting on the rocking chair for now

 

i don't know what to say

 

back to the "op shop", that term is catching on for me...
on intuition
don't usually go so often
but
look what was there........
and
squares
.
it's really quite beautiful. machine sewn, and i am now very curious about who got this far
only
and gave it up?
and what will
i
do...at first thinking of taking it apart, because of the squares, using them in "my" way
of panels
but tonight, i keep looking at it and i don't know.

just so you know

 

that i'm not being a slacker and just taking pics of my underwear and
bugs
here is what is also going on. i was invited to make a "window hanger",
a curtain, and in keeping with using what is at hand, i had to get
creative with piecing cloth on cloth to get the correct dimension for
the window. this has led to doing Kantha stitches all along the bottom
and side additions. slow going but i am making progress.

8 something p.m.

 

the halfway mark

Fruit of the Loom

 

drying on the house fence

a little more to do

 

i think making this futon cover is
ecstasy

how it is

 

grasshoppers grow by sheding their exoskeletan

tonight, watering, this
stands out
someone changed
grew
and i squat, staring, wondering what that
feels
like?

also, thinking on the porch steps, to past years when So Many grasshoppers ate pretty much everything...
this year, that was so odd already, and there are very few grasshoppers.
but this one grew, fulfilling it's destiny

this edge

 

it's taking a while. and could happen no other way than it is, by doing, as i go,

but this morning i am so taken by this piece of denim where it was gathered to the bodice. it looks like
the rains look in Monsoon storms coming at this place in a literal sheet of water with lightning strikes
announcing the arrival...so
i couldn't let this disappear into a seam but had to stitch it to the top.
and here is the absolute wonder of what i am just now beginning to know
about what i have learned so far from Spirit Cloth; jude, yes, but actually Jude/her Cloth.......
that i can let the cloth tell me how to go forward and with just those 3 stitches...
invisible baste
split backstitch
kantha
i can create a world i never dreamed.

wild ones

 

so close to bindweed here