I didn’t document the evolution of this cloth during the recent family sojourn to the ocean. But the stitching started with birds that emerged–one of the top right hand side, and one midway down on the left. The birds changed as the week progressed–as other elements raised their hand for acknowledgment. And suddenly I was captured in the “under tow.” Recording the deeper stuff. 
It’s all there. A map of the trip. The inner and outer journey. What one sees and what one senses.
This will not be a slow cloth. Lessons perceived and bucket holes noticed are begging for thread-time. So it’s going quickly–a cloth on a mission. A recording in stitch.
When I look back at pictures of the cloth, before stitch was added, I wonder. There was so much potential, I think, and yet, like a dream catcher, this is what was caught.
following thread 
This is magical … it will warm your heart in the middle of winter as you look back at your golden week and anticipate the ones to come in the future.
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simply not sure and feeling unmotivated to continue. hmmmm.
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When to stop … when to continue. Always a puzzle to me …
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Families have so many threads, so many emotions, events, history, woven among the every day, the special times so yes, I can see this cloth of family time as a dream catcher, a sorter of what needed to go, what remained and what shape shifted into becoming…
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yes–again a dream catcher. it is as though it were all a dream and now i’m watching as the pieces settle around me. remembering that change, thankfully, is a constant.
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So interesting to look back and forth between the two. What I see in the unstitched version and what emerged for you. I am really beginning to think of cloth work as more therapy than “art”. I hope it felt healing for you to work on this.
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healing? perhaps. purging for certain. i guess there’s
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a lot of healing encompassed in weeding out.
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Beautiful and what a wonderful way to remember a time away
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oh Debbie. although it does look much better in person, i’m feeling strangely ambivalent about it. perhaps i’ll continue at a later date?
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love your sense of colour and line
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thanks Mo.still wondering how to change its “affect”
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this cloth is such a setting free of the subconscious, don’t try to second guess the what’s next, just roll it up and let it settle for a bit, the cloth will let you know what else it wants when you come back to it with fresh eyes.
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i ALWAYS appreciate your comments–and especially am grateful for this one.
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(((Patricia))) even though the quiet philosophocal observer part of me says let it rest for a bit, I am also the manic queen of obsessive making to the point where my fingertips bleed to finish the work all in one go to ride the energy …
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aw jeeze typos… that’s meant to be philosophical… oh Ha!
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i do understand that obsession–and had it with this cloth originally–now a gentler feeling is arising. this is good. no rush
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i think it’s elegant in it’s Primal language. and Primal Language to me neither needs nor wants
interpretation. It presented. I would give THANKS and yes, roll it up inbetween
times, which may be days, or weeks, or moments. or all. I would let the Cloth
dictate Everything. It’s Extremely BeautyFull
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hi Grace. yes–it’s not the interpretative aspect put me off–and yes, the nuances of the cloth coupled wit h insights from “vacation” totally dictated what emerged. but i will set it down for now. there was a sense that I was just going and listening with only half an ear. and at this point, i refuse to muck with the integrity of the cloth. thanks for your observations. hope all is well in the land of enchantment.
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