windthread

 

same leaves, same grey/green color
still wet
no boiling, just leaves wrapped in muslin, a day and a half in
aluminum casserole pot in Sun. 96 degrees f

 

cut half, give or take, off…strips and the one center piece.
will WEAVE it, then listen and see what it says.

 

no. take off the center piece.
woven at the top and the bottom.
yes.

 

would NOT use this particular cloth, but What If i
used something like it? (which doesn't exist yet)
this is making me feel crazy with ideas…
and oh, whaa, 10 days till Jude's back…..

 

finished before, led to Continuing. but i think now, it's
finished. it has become quiet.
the white piece has been removed.
Learned: an image in my mind does NOT need complete reproduction
on a cloth. i am working toward making things Others might
connect to and they don't think with My mind and to continue
to try to make something "stand to reason", is not necessary.
Learned: i still don't know how to work with the silk gauze (the Sunrise).

 

 

this, and a lot of stitching

the Mexican Elderberry leaves:
on the lft, a little lighter. just in the canning jar and a day of Sun
the right, the copper pot and some hours of Sun
both, washed with Ivory soap, seem color fast.

tomatoes canned. from the Farmer's Market. two jars had to go into freezer because i didn't want to
do the 45 min processing for two additional jars. here, where i normally give away bags, 3 were harvested.
used the water bath water in an aluminum pot with elderberry leaves and muslin. haven't looked yet.

 

Deb G over at Beecreative has posted the ever so beautiful result of dyeing with Elderberry leaves…a
really rich amber apricot color. i wanted some of that so ran out and got some leaves from the Mexican Elderberry
here, plopped them in the little copper pot, boiled a few minutes and added a strip of muslin.
here is the surprise…finally…a really green Green!?!

 

 

all the vegetables are still on Pause but ~
other things flourish…
this is the eldest garden toad and this is
the toad spa which has never before grown such lush algae
the cicadas sing day and night and there are many more
butterflies than i ever remember.

 

this, i think, is enough for now.

the leaves need to have brown attachment stems to the branch
the rising Sun needs more, as does the silk ray of light
most of all, the chrysalis, or cacoon needs work to resemble more closely the photograph i sent earlier.
it needs shaping and it needs the little decorations of ever so tiny pieces of thorn that the Russian Olive
branch provided. (dianna..the little pretzel looking things)

 

final Beast days and only a lizard to show for it and the lizard only needs an eye,
so with that in mind, wanting to stitch a face but also not wanting to start a new cloth.

i remembered a workshop i took maybe over 20 years ago where we
were given fabric fragments chosen by another person in the group
at random and had to make a figure (doll) with only that. minimal.

so i picked up some scraps that were actually on the floor and
allowed self 2 colors of thread and this is it so far.
the beast here is "how it is to wake with a new white curtain"