Mobile stitching

Trying to create a habit of taking projects to work on with me everywhere.  Sometimes I forget but yesterday I had a long wait in a waiting room and made good progress on the little Agnes cloth.  It's for Liam's quilt but hasn't been stitched down yet.  The second example is an experimental combining of 2 cloths.  Both pieces use techniques from Jude's workshops.  These are so light and manageable and fun to work on that it makes waiting into treasure time.

It's been pretty cool lately, perfect for walking; here's a scene from relatively nearby, Jewel Lake(perfect name):

Mistaken identity and a beginning cloth

When my former neighbors moved away, their pair of doves moved over here.  Earnest and Molly.  They had a baby, Edgar.  This was 3 or  4 years ago.  Then one of the pair died mysteriously.  I assumed it was Molly who died, because the remaining dove was quite a singer and supposedly the males are the best singers.  Earnest and Edgar, although father and son, live separately because they fought when they were first introduced.  Nevertheless they perch near each other and sing to one another.  Every spring Edgar curls up in his food bowl and acts broody.  After a while he's himself again.  This spring, Earnest curled up in his food bowl and became broody too...His food bowl is above eye level so I don't look in there every day, but the day before Fathers' Day when I peeked in, this is what I saw:

Oh no!  Either someone has played a trick on me, or Earnest is Molly.  And has been for quite a while. This is very confusing and unsettling.  He/she isn't very interested in the eggs now, I suppose because they aren't fertile.  That's the nature story of the week.

In the Spirit Cloth workshop we are making bases to build a story on later...here is one of my bases before I basted it:

And here is the same cloth after basting...it has a soft depth and is light and wonderful to hold:

Catching up slowly

This is a close-up of progress on a portion of one cloth I've shown before and have been working on...the birds are indigo dyed cloth from Glennis...the cloth is woven from bits of fabric collected over the years

I started it in Jude Hill's cloth to cloth workshop; now I'm taking her Spirit Cloth workshop and today is the day to start something new for that.  It is all exactly what I need to learn and is keeping me Busy.  This cloth I decided to call "Texas", because 2 weekends ago I went to a family wedding in Texas!! My cousin is an amazing horsewoman and let me ride this beautiful horse:

 

She is leading us, thank goodness, and this doesn't show how fervently I am holding on to the saddle horn. 

Lastly, here is a photo of some wildness in the big park nearby. I love how, in spite of their differences, these plants are all getting along so nicely together.