i drew on this gourd i grew, maybe 10 years ago?
it is one of my favorites, not because i did so
well with the design, but because of the "scar"
on the back of it's perfect shape. looking at
the scar, i just began to draw the fish, which had
nothing to do with anything.
i am sitting with this cloth this morning, "asking"
for that same experimental mind
The gourd is fantastic! Gilly
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Grace I love the cloth and the eye. I just stitched my first one too, not too hard. I love that sitting with it and waiting to see what it will become. I have a hard time letting it happen, but love the process. Just need time and space to stitch right now. Looking forward to the long weekend. Happy Thanksgiving..
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Thank you for the book tip!
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hey, just to say Ive been stitching a yellow fish in between translating and editing like mad for a book that is going to the printers tomorrow-and they keep on adding stuff and sending it to me in panicha Im keeping sane by stitching a yellow fishand I come here for a quick peek at what youre up toanyway, love the fish
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love the cloth
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Beautiful gourd… I love working with them. However, up north here, I cant grow them to be really hard… needs a longer season. hope the story finds you….
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Debi…its tiny, the eye…butwas way easier to stitch than iimagined it would be…maybe because it IS so small…thebrain translates just a fewthreads very easily…
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Way cool gourd! I didnt know pencil colors would work on them, I have one a friend made me and he used leather dye, your method seems easier and also same good results. Is that the Dali LLama I see on that book? amazing what insight to people one finds by looking at their space. Ha! Love your iron cloth will love to see what you do with it all, what is that blue piece? At first I thought it was a beaded Indian piece I but larger view shows fraying????
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I noticed the eye right off. Ill have to look for the horse. But, I love the eye!!!! Of course, I love the weaving also. The gourd is really cool! ;~) Debi
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oh! i see a horse shape in the black hand dye! and i love the eye!
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especially love the fish with the black and white strip below. did you do that with paint?nice weaving. do I see an eye in that mid-rectangular piece?
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making with no mind… just because.came across this last night. its been sitting highlighted on an open page, ready to be copied to go somewhere…“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.” – John Gay, English poet & dramatist(captcha word – hasycled – has cycled?)
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nice weaving grace! i love it!happy new mexico thanksgiving…we have a dusting of snow herecheers!
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There is a special power in making this way.
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dont search youll find
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youll be lead by the fabric itself.Have a nice weekend.
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Gorgeous weaving Grace. Is that tea stained or dyed?
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i didnt notice the small eye, it seems a big eye, the whole cloth an eye. and i have been looking into it for a while.
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windthread 
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