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a February Moon of great beauty

and as It moves in its' arc,   It shines down upon me   ...  cleaning.  cleaning the Room.  i will have company on wednesday.  the cleaning began a few days ago with yet more divesting.  i am getting close to spartan.  who would guess.   and as i look at what i've done,  i see that i have really become serious about this cloth stuff.    it's pretty much all there is left.  a few drawing pads.  my colored pencils.  the box of drawing tools,  like blending sticks and erasers..the stump of my first pink pearl.  so what's left, i have moved from here to there, there to here.  looking.   in a stack of folders of all the classes of the MotherShip, there were these two cloths.  i stitched them together and stuck them on the window as Moon turned the sky that amazing evening blue,  a color that Glennis gets a lot with her indigo dye.  the artificial light in the Room made it's own changes.

these are two cloths from the first class, Spirit Cloth.   parts of them are on this Diaries Cloth.  today Jude commented about how maybe parts of the beasts, of us, come loose and become integrated into our environment.  yes.

 

 

a glitch

this is the first time that there has been enough of an issue of ,  uhhh,  lumpiness,  for me to feel like i am going to have to actually DO something about it.  since this cloth is going to be roaming around the house, around Me, and not on a wall once it's done,  i might just let it go.  but the pooching is definately there with the dense stitching of the Feather Grass.  i was aware all along, but then suddenly it was beyond being able to be pressed flatish with my fingers.  what to do, i don't know. 

and the grasses here are only about half done.   that will make it harder.  i put the two pieces of what might be rock cloth there, thinking i could pull the ripples "under them" when they go on?, maybe.

and i went outside to look at the Feather Grasses and realized that how i have been depicting them is how they are in the spring, when they are "new" and more upright.  now, in winter, they are all "out", i guess, feathery.  hmmmmm.

and this morning when i awoke, i saw something on the kitchen floor...a tiny perfect ..... dragon!  and squated down to see it more closely, picking it up, realized it was a dried out piece of Arugula from my salad.  but still, a tiny perfect dragon.

 

 

mystery

so,  here is the rack with pretty much all the cloth on it that i have dyed  (local plants)  in the last 2 years.  except for what is part of the Diaries Cloth.  i borrowed the rack Tuesday and have looked for 2 days.   it takes space.  but i really like it.  i don't know why.  but having them stitched together and STORED this way brings a mysterious sense of anticipation to the house.

the recent onion skin yellows,  i want to leave pinned to the curtain for a while

am still learning from this.  i would have never thought of having anything  YELLOW  in here, but i like very much how it changes the whole room.

THEN.......at the Thrift Shop yesterday, i found this cotton/linen shirt.

i like the weight of it.  so, i modified it a little,  and yes.  will use it in the Contemporary Boro 2 along with the Traveling Jacket.

otherwise,  back to stitching grasses.  this time, the Mexican Feather Grass.