ok. these are the ones i am working on. just in case. Wind is picking up, temps are dropping. high today is 12 degrees. while it is true that this is really not significant in certain parts of the world, it is here. this house is literally made of one outside wall of aluminum with a thin, as in 1/4", wood paneling of inside wall. any insulation, (a 1967 model) has long fallen down. the southwest wall moves with the Wind. almost all the windows don't close completely…this probably due to having been moved around (mobile home) over the years. i don't know it's history. was made in Benton Harbor Michigan…?…
anyway, why i live in it is a long story that didn't seem to have a necessary meaning to what i am doing here on this blog, but in the last day or so, i am re-thinking that. when Wind moves the wall, the electrical outlet also moves and i would assume, the electrical wires inside the wall. this is not good. how things often burn up around here. so, while i am sewing, i am thinking.
i can't remember the order i put the pics in, but the first three have changes since last posted. i understand now what is happening with the sleeveheartnet and have made some changes there, mostly having taken out all that stitching on the lower part that i liked a lot, but turned out to not have any relevance to the cloth as a whole. the "egyptian one" as Catherine saw it has from the beginning wanted that strip of Sun/moon that is the work of Deb Lacativa. it WILL go on, how i am not sure yet. and the "dark one" has the addition of some of Glennis' gauze at the top. All three of these, i am just "watching" at the moment. none are at all finished.
the 4th, OH the fourth. this is the "loom" weaving that is the latest segment in Jude's Contemporary Woven Boro class. the warp pieces tied in the back of a bread basket, and scraps woven in, stitched as in basted and then the warp strips untied and cut or not.
the house has been crazy anyway, the three little dogs huddled in a wad on the futon couch, blankets, bedspreads, towels, etc to include anything, smushed over curtain rods and into window ledges. plastic grocery bags stuffed into floor cracks, water dribbling from all faucets in an effort to keep the pipes from bursting, wood stacked half way to the door and throughout it all the electricity on and off. BUT in the midst of all that, there has been a whirlwind of excitemet with this finger weaving. everywhere are torn strips of cloth that i have never before been able to use and now will shine. in candle light, i wove strips in and then pulled them out, wove others, put some back, took some away; all the while having this incredible tactile uhhhh, intimate experience of the cloth, the makeshift loom, my fingers, color, texture, thread. i cannot find words yet for it but it is extremely different to me from the other weaving i have learned from Jude's classes. So it has captured me. and if the electricity stays up, i will try to write more later.
thank you EVERYONE for wishing me well these two days…don't stop till Friday when things will return toward "normal". or, the understanding that Climate Change does not have a normal.
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