windthread

solstice nearing

 

 

Mothers

 

even hypothetical necessity can be
a mother to invention...
TASSELS!!!!!

flying high to Greece

 

it IS! somewhere in a huge truck at this time...from Socorro, New Mexico USA
with a customs declaration that simply says: cloth

when i sat and looked at this piece of silk, looked at the stamped images and
words on it, read everyone's thoughts and information, all i could keep thinking
was that it wanted to be whole, remain itself. and i also simultaneously
pictured the header on Manya's Mythcolour ...same colour.....and i remembered
her posting a backdrop she had made for storytelling and i could feel her,
hear her telling stories when i saw that...and
right away, it was about that...if nothing else but to hang on her beautiful
ClothLine amidst lizards and rock and sea breeze that carries the scent of the ocean while she dreams up
ManyaMyths...

so, i filled out the form, sealed the envelope and Flora the postperson studied
the computer about sending things to Greece and she shyly looked up and said
"what Is it?", and i said "just some cloth from the thrift shop for my friend."
isn't that amazing?
yes.

experiment.the colored pencil amidst the

 

experiment.
the colored pencil amidst the threads.
thinking about Jude's tutorial on composition.
can the colored pencil and stitch Ground this?, ground it "enough"?
have just begun...going slow...~

should also say that the
pleasure
of marking this woven cloth is
enormous

Comfort Zone

 

what if
this was all i had to work with
and suddenly,
Christmas
became very important.
how would i make these
pieces of cloth as
beautiful as i possibly could?

salvaged

 

so, this is the silk wad i salvaged from
Martha's trash. i talked with her yesterday
eve and found out that it is:
cobweb silk 2/60
she gets it from ColourMart UK

really really like this thread

it knows where it's going

 

 

 

am pretty sure....
but here's some last pics before it flies...
each seam is like this close up..
it's really quite amazing. and when i
hung it on the curtain to take the pics i
did see some "flaws" of character, maybe a
water mark? but, for sure a beauty.

more and wondering......

 

 

before i forge ahead....i am wondering.
i have used colored pencil on the area of
the mountain ridges, bled it with turpenoid. on
the far right, did this ~after~ i'd stitched, so
colored pencil is on stitch thread too. have
this feeling that it is kind of "cheating"...
but i didn't want to put fabric there, as in
applique a piece, even silk gauze, which was
tempting...and maybe i still will do that...
but i for what ever reason wanted to stitch it
but also the floss was too defined of colors.
thread i used is some very fine weaving silk that
Martha the weaver had thrown out...kind of a
neutral almost wheat. in the midst of all this,
i am thinking of dyeing threads, silk threads,
even for this cotton muslin stitching...i like
using it a lot...different quality makes it good
for diffused images.
so, halfway through the day.

really really slow cloth