the green fabric at the top is hemp with a beautiful drape
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Blues with the blues
With the dip in temps and the ice sleet that started this evening and the car troubles that faced me yesterday morning and the pain in my muscles and joints, I started fighting the blues today. In asking myself what I need to turn my mood around, I'm longing for meditation in colour. While I've been looking at old and current family and friends' photos, and vintage photos from the Schomburg and Library of Congress for the next portrait quilt, I'm thinking my next piece should reflect my need for calm, balance and flow...the excavation of emotion and conjuring of ideas that happens for me when I'm lost in music or energies of some poems or the solitude of following a train of thought until it cocoons me or communing with history. Something abstract...until I can see my way clearer and feel joy and gratitude. I have some fabrics in grays and blues that I dyed 2 years ago and a warm rusty colour that are calling me and I'm thinking about lines and shapes that arch over as if I can pass through a portal to feeling better in spite of these earthly demands on me.
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Swatching it!
Well, well, well...look who is swatching! The plan (here goes...) is to knit my grand daughter a sweater. This will be my first knitted ...
It is good to look forward to what can be when we are in a position that we cannot create. Start sketching and or look back at sketches from the past for inspiration. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
ReplyDeleteI love this color combination and would you believe---I have the same type colors in my hand dyed stash as well. I might honor you with "borrowing" your color combination :D
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