• jude! LOOK!
    when I received this piece of cloth from jude I just sat and held it for days
    and then since, off and on
    thinking I would never be able to bear using it.
    but, look. eeeeee.

    so, it is just pinned now and am thinking i will probably need to
    cut
    it

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  • and nandas (who is nance) just said
    isn't it hard to cut into cloth we love

    i was saving this to say later, but it was nance who sent the silk piece of cloth
    and the beauty was i didn't need to cut it
    it came
    ready
    i think according to its own purpose
    but now wants wind

  • ok…here it goes

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  • kaye turner says
    before it looked ghostly and ethereal, now it looks holy

    thank you for this thought…it is a key

    and what changed?
    the moon from glennis
    how the silk now reaches up and curves around this moon
    the "time of day", or Sun journey/Moon journey that the photograph was taken….
    somehow changing the color of the dark cloth…need to watch this as it re~occurs over
    the next few days
    the dried strands of native grasses put back on the shelf in front…in the other photograph
    i'd moved it away

    nance says before it was self referential, now is in context of moon
    another key thank you!,yes

  • thank you, everyone, for all your thoughts and encouragement…..
    i am finding this blogging very awkward. I want to respond individually
    but can't seem to find a way to do that so it is easy for people to find
    the response
    and the WIND is not helping…it's been constant, reminding me of
    contractions when we are in transition, in labor, giving birth.
    although it is how it often is in new Mexico, nonetheless, it has it's effect

    so, slowly I will tell you individual things….i am reading everyone's
    blogs and there is just so much in each that i relate to and want to
    respond to. many of you are familiar from jude's comments and i already
    "know" you
    the amazing thing to me is the common ground we all stand on.
    again, thank you from my heart

  • sometimes when I can't sew
    it has to be enough to just create some kind of "installation".
    as in pinning this piece of silk to a piece of cloth, then, both
    to the curtain at the end of the living room.
    as I looked at this, I though, what on earth would I DO with
    this piece of silk …. anyway
    that could possibly make it better, or more
    than it is just as is?

  • the picture has nothing to do with anything, i just liked her a lot.
    thanks for encouragement and great ideas…am still mulling them all and yes,
    nance ~ I remembered the NYT article and if I were better at this, i'd link it here

    deb ~ i think it's just as you said it, pulled thread. this particular cloth is cotton so….but i do have some linen.
    and i didn't think about it, but going back, it was a little haiku-ie makes me smile

    dee ~ thank you for appearing and the suggested link

    as I am digging post holes and replacing 24ft of wood fencing, I think of all this
    and I like trying to replicate the orb spider web with couched embroidery floss i think, but on another cloth entirely?
    (that doesn't exist yet) and then begin the pulled thread linen

    again, these are just experiments, "studies" as jude said, for the second workshop…story cloth

    and jennlui ~ we are getting closer, soon.

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  • jude moves in the world of
    What If?

    i am in the world of
    How?

    How
    can I make a web under that moon?

    can I do it with silk gauze?