Born of friendship and conversation.
Hatched from a blue egg (barely visible).
Transformed by leaves,
under a moon and among the stars
A small little moth finds shelter.
Among mountains and blue chickens.
She might want to watch out for the paw though...
There was a moment this morning, as I was stitching down some of the section I was mending on my "made of stars" quilt, that I noticed the way the velvet in the next square was rippling. And so I continued stitching...
This (from yesterday's post) became this...
Just beginning, still will need some tidying, but yes I think this will work. It was the word "weaving" that did it. Thank you!
It's wet and windy, a very stormy day. The kind of day would have us all looking for shelter (my word for 2012) sooner or later.
Shelter has a relatively simple definition, a place of refugee or protection. More than anything, as I think about shelter this year, I want to document how I create shelter, what kind of home maker am I, how I feather my nest...
Today's mending:
What if it is enough to know what is underneath something?
The silk/hemp fabric that I used for some of the squares on my "made of stars" blanket has frayed very badly. The fabric was a gift from my mother and I want to be be able to keep it where I can see it, but it's just not standing up to the wash and wear that I put this blanket through. And so I am layering fabric over the top of this fabric. The red in the background is the first piece that I have used to cover one of the silk/hemp squares.
What if we broaden our definition of a garden? Green onions anyone?
And my Dark Day's Meal for this week:
What if I make my own fruit/nut bars...make them just what I want them to be? They make a yummy breakfast with a bowl of local yogurt.
This is still a work in progress
The other side of the sun.
There was one more minute of light today than there was yesterday...
The back side...
The first project of the day was to add a red star to the building block quilt. It's actually acquired a new name: "Made of Stars."
Most stars are considered red dwarfs. There are also brown dwarfs and blue dwarfs.
Unfortunately, the color of this red dwarf is off. Visualize it as a bluer red.
As I was stitching I realized that my favorite way to start a blanket is to sew together larger pieces of fabric to form a large cloth. So building a blanket with blocks of fabric is really how I'm creating...
It's based on my desire to not cut fabric any smaller than I have to.
One of my favorite things about making a blanket this way is that I can use it right away, but I can take as long as I want to embellish since it never has to be "done."
At least one star on this blanket is going to need to be exploding or radiating away from it's center.
And since just about any blanket/quilt could be started in the same way as "Made of Stars," I pieced together a lot of my blue velvet. A base for "Following Sea..."
