I am in my space this morning to start a shawl I had counting difficulty with last night and unfrogged. The softness in the air and the quiet while everyone remains sleep I am hoping will allow me to concentrate more. I am using a foundation single stitch which is one I haven't used often. My plan is to also do a little piece work from Piecing by Ruth McDowell. Once I work through a book as part of my Karoda School of Art I am also deciding if the book will remain a part of my arsenal. I want to streamline, reel in, what I create over a long swatch of time. I want to have more command over what my resources are and should be in order to do what I do. You know there is that tendency to be a grasshopper, jumping all over the place and trying out every knew tool and trend that comes out. And that is all cool for awhile, but I'm longing for a more distinct look in all that I select to keep, whether it is encaustics or quilts.
Yesterday I spent some time working on a Mojo. I usually do these in painted papers stitched and embellished, I do them in down time to relax my mind. This one is fabric and has been hanging around for two years. I plucked it off the board and began adding hand stitching. I love everything going on so far with this small piece. Here I am auditioning the porcupine quill.
This study below I did previously last year...I want to revisit it in a larger quilt. I made a small adapted version of it that was part of a collaboration. It is about commanding spiritual transformation.
Every Friday Mo and I have lunch. It is her day off. Last Friday was our next to last Friday lunch date. She will be going to a different shift at her job so we will have to come up with another way to connect. Maybe she can be persuaded to take up a knitting class with me in the evenings. Here we are at Long John Silver's. Summer means we are a foursome instead of a twosome.
I hear footsteps upstairs, so I'm going to get this shawl started. Peace.
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