Workshop cloths

This is the first woven cloth I made for Jude's cloth to cloth workshop.  It's made out of dear old scraps from various projects.  Some hand dyed silk.  No quilting yet.   It's nice to handle...very light

This one has lots of flannel in it so it's a bit heavier.  What fun it is to make them. Each is 12" square just about.

I can't resist adding this photo.  Very slowly and carefully the old department of Public Health building is being torn down.  They spray it with enormous quantities of water, I suppose to keep the dust down.  This project has been going on for months.  This was yesterday's view which I found beautiful.  More lovely than the building itself ever was.

Raindrops and gravity

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I've been working on the rain portion of the farmcloth/laprobe.  I wasn't happy with the raindrops so I tried imagining  the path that each drop follows...and that it must be very curvy due to wind currants and birds and airplanes getting in the way while gravity is always pulling pulling.  Here's a close-up:

The raindrops themselves are little rectangles of starched home-dyed silk!  The paths are made of unfurled yarn.  I don't know what will happen when this is washed, but probably should find out soon, as it is supposed to be utilitarian.

Lo and behold, here are some local cormorants.  Before seeing them nesting at Sea Ranch, I was unaware of their social nature.  I have only noticed them swimming individually in the past, but yesterday at the dog park a crowd of them swam by.  Sometimes they would all dip underwater at the same time, vanishing completely and then all pop up again more or less together.

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Respite from travel

Ah, I am home for a while!  It was a long drive to Tucson and back but worth it for happy glimpses of family and scenery.  I will post some pictures later on, but for now here are the two pieces I've been working on, slowly making progress.

And...

I've just pinned the sunshine and rainclouds on, but this morning I stitched the right hand cloud down a little:

That is silk gauze that I dyed a very pale blue.