the top pic is what the stained hand sewn household cloth looked like before it became the warp. it was sewn together…three pieces were one.
next, closeup of the hand stitching
next, an example of one of the stains
then, how it's being woven. the weft is muslin
and last, how it will be when that central piece is stitched in place.
looking at the calendar this morning, i realize that the Contemporary Woven Boro is almost coming to a close. had to choose what i need most help with in the remaining time left, and it's daughter Jenny's cover. will begin trying things out tomorrow. maybe the tapestry weave for that central piece, but then what to do with all of the flannel blanket around it?????
tea dyed the central piece. need to tea dye the blanket too. will do that tonight so i am ready tomorrow to begin experimenting.
spent all first half of day putting the blown down fence back up (with neighbor kids)….had to set 3 new 4×4 posts in cement. that sort of mending. then…oh tra la, the computer mouse died. so off to town to get another which is temporarily working but not the right kind. i think i want nothing else to fall down or break apart for a little while.
any suggestions/ideas about how to approach this blanket/cover will be very welcome. please.
this morning i thought to add a border piece along both right and left sides and kantha stitch this. too much.
but, even for my kind of primitive sensibilities, the raw edge just wasn't right.
so…just kantha stitched the plain single cloth side, right side in pic and it adds some sense of something to it i think. will let it be awhile . i don't know if that will work for the left side.
and…this is our post office this morning.
Wind is here today…very very much and constant and Strong and just blew down the far fence. so off i go to see if i can prop it up. oh sigh. every spring part of the fence goes down.
same thing. same place. different.
this is the window on the door where it will be. it's "purpose" is to help me be able to leave this place with no regret. again…that is down the road, maybe over a year. but i am connected here, so it will take a lot of work.
it is afternoon and the cloth is backlit by strong daylight. Raven is actually almost invisible when i stand across the room, in the kitchen.
i don't even know if anyone can tell all the small changes…? anyway…. and then, am wondering why that lower left, very plain 9 patch? had it stayed what it originally was, before becoming part of this Raven's cloth, i would have "put something on it". i think.
so …. what if i exchanged it for a different one? how would that change everything?
off to work outside a while on the modified version of the greenhouse.
and what great thing is happening is that i am looooooking at each, noticing all i can about how each changes everything. an example: when there is a border (of any color, dark light) on the left, it closes in, confines the bright square.
pinning, repinning again and again.
last night i undid the Raven and its weave pieces from the backing which was a piece of that rip stop nylon that i love the color and fray of. am not sure why i needed to do that.
just to put these pieces where they are is causing an intense physical and emotional sensation. i could call it anxiety, but it really isn't.
this is all i can do for the moment. i am going to clean house. always a good thing when you don't know what to do.
a significant day.
the Raven was stitched during the Spirit Cloth Workshop
the weaving of the ground in Cloth to Cloth
the denim 9 patches in Cloth to Cloth
the 9 patches have been on the windows since, the Raven in the drawer.
last night, after judes most recent lesson and video, i decided what i was going to work on putting together. this morning, i woke before light and found the Raven with a flashlight, took down the four 9 patches and everything has changed. not the original plan. but then, what often IS?
i want to make cloths for windows. not curtains, but "Window Hangers" as Wendy's children call them. i want to make story cloth for windows.
this is all i know right now.
the above is a difficult and unlikely combination. i cannot make it stand to reason. but it is what i will teach myself something with right now. it is uncomfortable to put it mildly.
