Category: Making

Gladdening

It is a trick, or should I call it a technique, that I’m learning. Grace called it brightening, but I know it as gladdening. Gladdening the heart. That’s the phrase that comes to my...

xenotopia (a strange place)

We are in a strange place. I would leave it at that, but I’m trying to encourage myself to articulate my thoughts, maybe clarify what I’m thinking. I feel today, with the reversal of...

Pamphlet books

I’m trying to clean up the unfinished books that are hanging around. These were cut to size and just needed stitching. So a simple matter to finish them. The covers are all paste paper...

Finishing

I finished weaving the green mat today. “Finished weaving” is misleading because there’s still more “finishing” to be done. I guess it would be better to just say it’s off the loom now. Onwards....

A Tuesday in May

I’m working on a new weaving. It’s theme is green. Green with slits. I realized I have a lot of green or green-adjacent yarns and threads. What if I combined them all in a...

Cloth story for now

This cloth is ready to take a rest now. Here it is when I had just a few seams left to stitch. I enjoyed seeing it in folds as I maneuvered the strips into...