windthread

 
so here is the linen shirt, one of them, but this is THE one…

nance wondered if it is shot linen.  i think it might be.  learning.

shot or not, it is overflowing with potential.  will need to make what i think i remember are called raglan sleeves?  i am a small skinny person, this is an ample shirt.  but i also very much like loose jackets.  and then there is the collar…it might "go"….

if i go through with re-organizing this shirt into the Traveling Jacket, it will be a first in many years of being committed to hooded zip sweatshirts.  as i am going forward, i seem to be going back….???

can you tell what it would be called????
 

 here it is on the piece of cotton something that i have had waiting on the shelf.  this cotton something is like a blanket kindof…very great, almost flannely, but not…it can be the backing? and somehow the central piece can be amidst other woven strips?????  the central piece is 38"X38".

 

 
 
thinking all day about what i would like to try in the Contemporary Woven Boro class.  thinking about the concept of Boro…which with my limited understanding so far is a mending…a continuation of a needed cloth by merging another cloth.  so…these two things don't really fit within this context, but…hmmm.  the little goat is something i did in Beasts….as far as it got….the second pic is of a piece of cloth that caught my daughter jenny's eye at the big thrift shop in Albuquerque some time ago.  she held it, touched it, then put it back.  when she was off in another isle i put it with my items.   it was pink, for one, but also more fou fou than i am.  than i see her to be too, really, but she really liked it.  so today i tea dyed it to a kind of peach more than pink and i am wondering if these could go together somehow on a large weaving of neutral cloth to come to be a quilt, or coverlet for her when she sets out with her goat herd sometime in the near future to find a life that is hers?  what if it could?

 
from a beautiful book i have:  A Book About Grass    Its Beauty and Uses

Snow Coat,  Akakura, Tokamachi.  A local sedge plant with a slick and waterproof outer skin provides the material for this coat.  The wearer appears almost like part of the forest as he moves through the trees.

 looking for an image to show jude, and somehow came up with this one by accident.

it's Sandrock, one of the garden toads.  tho i will go back and try to find the image i was looking for, this is good in the meantime, because she is "out there", somewhere, on this january morning….a comforting thought…

 
doesn't seem like a lot

there will be many more sun threads and moon threads.  these in the center, are holding hands.

the moon, of course, is Glennis'…did i already say that?  the sun is one of the beautiful pieces from Marti…it feels so good to have it on this cloth.  the odd and beautiful black/white design is one of those unexpected things in life.  when i saw the blouse on the rack at the thrift shop, i couldn't belive my eyes, then was heartbroken when i touched it….a horrible feeling synthetic.  walked away, came back.  walked away, came back….the design was just too magnificant.  after i cut a small piece from it, i searched for the content label and saw…..the label:  Gianni Versace   made in Italy.    that explains it.  but, what was he thinking, not using cotton…we'll never know.

i want to get as much of this done before Saturday when Jude's class begins.  i love this concept of a Theater for the cloths.  i really don't have any idea what it means, but it means something that is holding my attention in an unusual way.