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21 responses to “a sleeve of a homely shirt”
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grace, I like those tiny blue lines so much. tiny secret handwriting. several paragraphs worth it looks like…
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some of them are gone already..
i wish the cut threads could have stayed…they were really
interesting, like morse code somehow.
will put another pic up later…this sleevecloth is wanting a
lot of attention.LikeLike
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grace–its just beautiful
did you stitch the dark lines or were they part of the shirt ?
who knew when you picked up that sort of uptight shirt at the thrift store that it would become a main character in your story–LikeLike
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beautiful Grace; what about those beautiful blue lines? Did you draw them?
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that is an oxford weave, looks like the dark threads are woven double.a common men’s shirting cloth.
i see a face again. a mask.LikeLike
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oh —-there is such a face–can’t believe i didn’t see it—!!!
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this morning, in comment on Anabella’s cloth in CWB
“let it be is the point of this class. does it hold
together as cloth? can it be used like cloth? did you
help make that happen?” quote. Jude Hill
and yes. somewhere in my mind, like a zillion other
things, i had the information on some index card as
in a card catalogue at an old fashioned library:
oxford cloth
ok. so oxford cloth. and yes, there are two dark threads
woven as weft. i love this cloth because i can SEE
how it was woven so easily…under over under over
ad infinitum until time to put the button down collar on.
but now it is
soft. and someone sees a face.
a second person does too.
hmmmm.
jude…i hesitate to comment on the Mother Ship about
your dilemma because i really can’t tell what the
dilemma is…as in
what exactly IS the question?
but
the questions that rise up here are my own…do i make
what is beautiful to me? does that reign? do i make
something practical? should that reign? can you
SIT on beauty?
should you?
if you have a ton of everything you need, what then,
would be a
rag
to you?LikeLike
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judyk~ no..i stitched them. a single thread embroidery
floss strand, back stitched, a little sloppy.
and you are Right. it IS becoming a main character in
my story.
thanks for keeping track of me…helps me.LikeLike
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Wendy/Gracie
nope. thread.LikeLike
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i didn’t either. am trying to be
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for some reason I also see the face! the close up of the fabric looks so soft and love the fringes, it would be easy to stitch.
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the mothership has sprung a leak.
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I like your questions Grace…. I like beautiful and useful. 🙂 Bet you would have guessed that.
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can we plug the hole with rags?
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soft soft soft and another reason to NOT PUT OFF the
growing of Indigo this spring. i think this cloth
would just soak it up.LikeLike
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that would be swell.
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ok.
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Hi Grace: love the weaving of your piece. I’ve been working on a little background-type weaving and I guess I’m not,ummmm, relaxed enough to just let the weaving/cloth tell me which way to go, I end up doing the “traditional” over-under-over-under, but yours loooks sooo relaxed and beautiful : ) sorry, I’m rambling on here : ) can you tell me what Kantha stitching is ?? I’ve heard it here and on some other stitching blogs, I guess I can loook it up but just saw it on your post and had to ask. growing indigo, now that sounds wonderful – hope you write about your growing journey here : )
Blessings, Sandra in AZLikeLike
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yes. i have learned that about you and it makes me
happy to be able to say that.
there is an expression here that i have come to like
so much…
people say ” i know you. i know you already” and
they say it in a very loving way….
so yes. i would have guessed. cause i know you already.LikeLike
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sandra…kantha is an ancient stitch, but how i have
learned to use it is over spaces… a straight stitch
a space a straight stitch a space. if you do that over
and over, there comes to be a textured kind of wavey
ness. it thickens the cloth amazingly. i’ll try to
take a close up tomorrow. i spent the late day/eve doing
kantha. i love love love it.
i got the seeds from a woman in the NW for the indigo.
soon i will hopefully get the new and improved more
practical version of the greenhouse together. should
get the seeds in by late Feb early march. i will for
sure be telling that story here.
and Blessings to you. Thank you for the ones you send
this way ~LikeLike
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grace
i am late for work, but just saw this and have to say.. i love practical and things usually have to have a purpose and this class and jude are teaching me to let go of that. I hang all my little pieces in the window and just let them be. so new to me. i love this sleeve and love how it is ragged on the edges. i also am glad to know you on this blog..
jude.. i have boxes and boxes of rags from weaving rag rugs. i could make a huge plug in your hole. wish that is all it would take..LikeLike
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