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reworked cup in the few minutes available tonight - the cup on the old-back-now-front/top side. added beaded saucer since granddaddy’s pet grandchild project was teaching us to sip coffee-flavored milk from a saucer. (i never acquired the taste for coffee. to this day, i don’t own a coffee pot.)
leaving steam as is cause i like [...]

3 days of stitching stars - count them THREE days - of stitching over previous messy stitching, ripping and snipping out stitching then just now my boy and i decide we like the backside better.
sigh.
this is a plate in my dinner party, the one for my granddaddy ballard. though the star resembles a starfish, on [...]

most of us took grandmother’s quilting for granted as just something she did to “keep busy”. but when we held the first quilt up to be photographed, there was an audible collective inhale followed by the most exquisite silence. silence of respect and appreciation and love-in-a-new-light. after a while, my cousin said quietly, “She really [...]

cataloguing my grandmother’s quilts has been a long-time pet project of mine, a WISP. we took these pictures in my backyard with owners holding them up for the camera. though the pictures aren’t “studio quality”, i think grandmother would’ve liked having them photographed outdoors with her children and grandchildren in the picture.

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well, i think there’s some improvement in my edging stitching. maybe not marked but definitely some. worked on it tonight during rehearsal for into the woods, and i think it’s finally all coming back to me. (i have 16 words - not lines but words - in tonight’s rehearsal page span, so there was plenty [...]

base stitching on autoquiltography one continues. thought i’d be anxious to be moving to the next phase now, ready to move forward and get this annunciated image stitched into existence . . . but not so much. will be glad when i’m to the hand-sewing stage for reasons of portability: won’t lose work time during [...]

i don’t have any more sense than to show you the poor results of my edging efforts today. (it’s another piece for my dinner party series.) tomorrow will undoubtedly be dedicated to stitch removal and search for that ancient instructional book of stitches.

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when i found my second born in shards, i didn’t see a broken creation but pieces that will be reborn into something larger, bigger, more magnificent.

where does this longing to combine cloth and clay come from? is it the joining of polarities, hard with soft? is it the long, long history of both cloth and [...]

seems cats love cloth with a past, too - enough to peacefully coexist and share the space (at least for a while) on recently rescued cloth. rescued cats, rescued cloth: a likely pairing, i suppose. jude, i sure hope you aren’t allergic to cats . . .

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worked on 2 new pieces today, finished neither. this one is 4 layers: 2 of inkodye, 2 of acrylic:

this one is 6 layers: 3 of inkodye and 3 of acrylic:

Here’s the one i finished yesterday:

not quite sure how i started out with bark and ended up with grasses and stacked stones. i like yesterday’s piece, [...]

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