windthread

 

 

 in the jars: lichen that i scraped off pieces of fire wood when splitting.  i don't know if it is good for dyeing?  but we will soon know.

and, Valarianna, here are your promised gourds.  i AM slow, but become much more efficient when the weather is warmer….truly am of the lizard clan.  anyway…need to get them cushioned safely in the box and then they will be winging their way to you this week.  i am so looking forward to whatever you do with them….or, nothing will be ok too.  that's what they have been doing here for a couple years.

 

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this is where i sit when i "talk" with Wendy's children
 there were notes in the rock since last fall, but now on this first day of warmth, i see they are gone.  i also see this small doorway in the last photograph…to the right.  someone is living here over the winter and maybe needed the notes to weave warmth inside?

this morning, first meadowlark sang.  there are bees moving slowly through the branches and grasses.  too soon yet.  all is still brown and dry.

but i will photograph this things as change comes, change that began today.

 

 

 

this is the workroom after over a week of disruption in how things usually are…sometimes no water, sometimes no electricity, sometimes neither.  i think it's over.  and i think i have decided to try to bring the old blog over here. 

 

 

 
 

 
 

 maybe, the place for both these beauty~ Full pieces of silk?

the muslin piece was woven on a stretched canvas.  tea dyed during the night and seeming to just "want" to be woven this way.  so soft, fluid, gentle it is…and as i was photographing it, i saw atop the basket under neath the two pieces of silk that have been waiting.

the first pictured is hapazome from Kaite, kaiteyarngarden 

the second from Heike, gerdiary

both these silk pieces so fine and elegant,  but to me,  rest perfectly on this woven torn muslin.  i will make them each one of their own.  this first will be to experiment with…a neutral ground for so many possibilities whirling in my mind.

HAPPY!

 

 

 

 
 

 
 
 a comment from ShiShi about the first cloth caused me to wonder about the difference between the basket loom weaving and the woven on a foundation…in this case, the "dark weaving" made last week with the Weaving Assistant which has harem cloth backing. 

What if i used the same fabric but wove a little one on the basket loom, would it be different?

Would it have that soft, fluid feeling?  how else might it be different? 

so i did it and there on the little table too was a piece of scrap from the scrap bag.  What if it was a butterfly wing????  so that got basted on and i should have waited until i did some mosaic weave, but i was impatient, …………….and yes!, there is a completely different quality to it that i will think about for the rest of the day.  

AND the hot water tank/pipes unfroze !!!!!    Flow.

 

 

 

 

this is how a window familiar to you by this time looks this evening.  the Sun finally shown down for the last moments of this day causing this blanket squashed on the curtain rod to transform a difficult day with its beauty.  it's 6 degrees at 5pm

 

 

 
 
 
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.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Robyn Ayaz in the CWB class knew…and yes, she's right… she said

"somehow like a net"

yes.  so, before i get too energized by this, here we have it so far.  a homely shirt sleeve heart net.  3 small things snagged in it…a little sky,  a small piece of love with something tangled up with it, and of course, a little wind….