ok. This has been put away for quite a while but now...maybe? The piece on bottom right from the hand of Dana, Raven and Sparrow.typepad, today with a human figure
the ground is walnut dye from the pot OutSide a couple years ago, and old worn very thin soft muslin and the markings so soft and subtle, which present the challenge...how might it be possible to work anything into and with a cloth like this? Maybe it can't happen? But interestingly enough, Deb's dirty threads give me a glimmer of possibility. I want to try.
the Other Side...can you see the threads? maybe a single click? but it's begun, the invisible baste, in earnest, and as it goes, i am AGAIN on my knees grateful to Jude Hill for this MAGIC....i think when she uses it, she takes a very small but visible stitch...but i took it as literal...invisible and on the Face of the cloth, there is nothing to be seen of it....i put the needle back in exactly where it came up, but most, almost always, a thread gets caught and holds. Invisibly. but holds and the JOY of melding the three separate cloths into ONE never fails to bring such pleasure...the FEEL of it, the "hand". And in this cloth, so much so because of the softness, both Front and Other, the softness of the muslin.
so am here early this day because there are so many things needing done OutSide here and it remains in the 90's....since May....or even April? i've forgotten, but for a loooong time. Both earlier and longer than "usual". But the things still wait for my doing. No getting around it.
