i used to love watching Pee Wee's Playhouse. one of the dorky things he always used to say when someone said " oh, i love ________!" was "Well then, why don't you marry it?" So, after confessing to being hopelessly in love with rags, this kept coming up and i searched till i found one of the first weavings i made in Cloth to Cloth. some strips are of a commercial quilting cotton that i really love though it's stiffly funky alone, and the rest are from a very large piece of what Jude referred to as good household cloth...a loose weave cotton, kind of like diaper material? and this cloth was SOOOOO used, with many stains. some rust, some blood. it could have been used for so many things...wrapping leaky pipes, car parts, menstrual blood, a birth, maybe preparing a pig for Mantanza, harvesting chickens. wiping up any number of bad messes. wine. who knows. but though so worn and used, there it was at the thrift shop. whoever set it out on the shelf thought it still had some life in it. so...i had torn the strips and woven them but never gone further. it's been in the bottom of some basket but even though i forgot all about it, i remembered it. and then i remembered a lot more things thinking about being in love with cloth, thinking about love in general and i remembered when Pee Wee married Fruit salad....if you type that into UTube, you can watch. So i thought , OK. , if i love raggy cloth, i'll marry it. and for 2 days now have been stitching away, some invisible baste, some kantha and here is my Wedding Cloth
it curves up at the bottom because it was so cold in here this morning my fingers were all spastic. but i got it finished to this point. and now what? do i trim all those dangling ends? do i put it on a ground of some kind and stitch them down? and does it want any other scrap stitched to it? I have till late afternoon tomorrow, New Year's eve.
and the Chanin person has nothing on Pee Wee. Deb G. ....go to UTube and watch Pee Wee's Giant Underpants
