the sun

It's Sunday today.

Nót that there was much sunshine :

it rained quite a lot the better part of the day

(though in the end the sun really came out)

No it was "Sunday" because I was working on my new 

SUN piece

Yesterday I stitched the other half of the sun together.

Today I had to tackle the problem

what I would use as background.

(no, it is definately not going to be part 

of the big "Diaries-cloth")

It will stand on it's own.

After a lot of try-outs I decided to use 

the funny fabric I dyed with Procion two years ago

It is very loosely woven and there are strips stitched on in swirls.

I initially bought this to use in some felting project,

(but it was still in the drawer)

I placed the sun on quite a big piece

it's  about 105 cm wide 

There will be a border of very special denim pieces

(from someone else)

I put some other thin blue fabric behind it for more stability

since it's so big

It took a lot of puzzling and deciding about the rest

Of course : some weaving !!!

.... so far, so good ...

I must confess that it doesn't look like a day's work

but in fact it is ...

And on top of that :

the big problem with me is, that when I'm "in the flow" (of creating) 

there isn't much attention for anything, or anyone, else ...

(Ahhhhh Man had to wait for his supper,

I totally tend to forget things like that when I'm "busy")

(to be continued)

summer (?) solstice

I really couldn't tell that it was 

the longest day of summer today

(not much of a summer until now !!!)

Gray overcast all day long,

even a steady drizzle to start the day

But, 

a date is a date,

June 21 is June 21

I just tought it would be nice 

to start stitching a little something again.

What better colours are there 

to make a summer solstice piece

than 

yellows

So I began with a bunch of yellow scraps 

and some bigger pieces of yellow fabric

(from my rainbow "stash drawer")

and started stitching them together, by hand, the "Jude-way"

(it's a simple, almost meditative way of piecing

any kind of scraps together, and stitching the seam allowance

to either side down, with the tiniest of stitches,

which gives the piece such a wonderful feeling)

Half of my Solstice Sun is done

The other half will have a bit more colours than just yellow.

It will take some time.

I even don't know if this piece will be incorporated in the big "Diaries cloth"

or that it will stand on it's own ...

We'll see ...

(Ha, probably not finished before Winter Solstice

... then it will be just a "Solstice" piece)

;-)

WAS was .... and Spring is

"WAS"

was the lovely grey cat of my dear stitch-inspirator Jude.

She appeared in many posts :

walking in the woods

sitting on cloth Jude was working on 

even walking through the instruction video of the on-line class

.....

Now Was is "Walking Among Shadows" as Jude says

we will all miss her

So a bit of Daffodil sunshine to remember this wonderful feline creature

*

Speaking of sunshine :

that's what we have a lot at the moment

Spring is here !

One of the things that are exported from Holland

to the rest of the world are

flower bulbs
but we keep a lot of them here for ourselves

( and nót only in private gardens .... )

At the moment the edges of the streets are coloured

with bright yellow "sunshine" of Daffodils in bloom

or the soft blue of Scillas

Mmmmmmmmm ...

SPRING

( btw : nearly time to draw the winner of the "leap day" mandala ... )

mandala wednesday

The second mandala with the "Tzolkin"

as inspiration.

12 October 2011

is day 6 in the wave of the Blue hand

and the seal of Yellow man.

( For me this October day 

was also about

breast cancer awareness )

Themes were

openness and transformation

balance and equality

and

the power of free choice

I also had a lovely day with my dear friend M

( she's doing fine )