Last week I finished Stone Path #3 and finally got downstairs to photograph it yesterday. It turns out that going down & up the 13 stairs to our all-purpose basement (wet studio for dye/paint, photo wall for shooting work, garden tool area, “wood butchering” shop and storage rooms) is incredibly good knee strengthening exercise!
So I went back down first thing this morning to discharge and paint several pieces of cloth for my next project. With several things looming in the near future I feel it is best to start on the ginormous ‘Earth Stories’ pieces due in November. I will be designing two pieces to hang together within a 72″ square and a smaller replicate to hang in a 9″ x 14″ space.
Stone Path #3 like its predecessors was inspired by a stone path in St. Louis, MO. We were on a walking garden tour of a historic district and of course everyone was shooting homes while I was shooting pathways. I have several more images which may lead to other paths. On two separate occasions in the past week people have commented that SP #2 and #3 look like water not stones. Now that I look at it…
Life is so busy right now and yet when it slows down I don’t seem to be as productive! So onward and upward…
In fact my first 
The black is now black, purple and old gold with a khaki colored lace which was one of two pairs of laces that came with the leather hi tops. Love it!
 The tongues are as important as the shoe itself as they do show through.
A funny thing happened on the piece I have been working on for the past month or so. Originally I sketched an idea and made a pattern using the overhead projector. Then one day after sewing one too many curved seams it took a literal 90 degree turn!  Obviously the muse wanted something else to happen here.
s, rolling like a seal and just flat out in repose. A brief incision infection and knee instability kept me out of the pool until now.
the place where I most am likely to relax?!
in July. I am now working backwards from that date, taking care of details like working my fiscal year hours at 
no one got hurt) and approached it again a few days later with the idea that if I still got that feeling it would come down off the wall and I would begin anew with something that made my heart sing. I was so surprised when during my second attempt at designing the path I was overcome with joy at the result. It also could have been just stepping out of the chaos of driving 1000 auto miles in two weeks to being back in my sacred space.
and black rayon for this …
When the book was published I was thrilled to see my work in living color on page 90. 
I bought four extra copies of the book and gave them to friends. That’s when the fun began. One friend said that other F word commonly came to mind as she attempted Furoshiki! She noted it is important that the cloth be large enough before proceeding. I had also learned that when I tried unsuccessfully to double fold two paperback books.
The cloth was a vintage damask tablecloth which I had dyed, discharged and painted 3 years ago for an 
and the other the ‘wrong’ side. 
Voila…furoshiki!
returned from what will likely be our ‘big’ trip for the year. I am between knee replacements strong enough to wander yet preparing psychologically for round two this summer. Then..Katie bar the door I will be ready to fully roam once more.
 I was capturing images on the ground, up the side of the wall, and even peering into glass brick bathroom windows!
…the metal awning at a Luby’s Cafeteria
I was captivated by Lady Bird Johnson’s diary of her time as first lady. I opened the volume in a bookstore and turned immediately to 1966 when LBJ dedicated the Point Reyes National Seashore (about 20 miles from my home) and she had breakfast in bed in a San Francisco hotel overlooking the bay, or harbor as she noted. I have always loved reading biographies which essentially is history with a voice. I decided to both read the book and resume my own writing.
 I’ve spent a fair amount of time considering the stitching, if I should pillowcase and stitch as I normally do or if I should cover with tulle since I recently bought a full bolt. I decided against the tulle as the last thing this piece needs is another layer…of anything!