washed C’s curtains in his absence — 18 years wore the edge away!
Lexington volunteer in militia garb
Berkshire barn sketched during commission conversation
Bday dinner – K’s six months of being numerically younger than I am are over!
cannibalized “Middle Passage Two” for smaller horizontal quilt (pix soon)
new fabrics from bleach tub and indigo vat for ‘Ghost House’ – (early indigo vat sample of mine on right)
could be pieced into finished top in as little as an afternoon!
garden quilt
Martha’s Vineyard mirror
Patrick and Mary – on our way to Lexington Green
heart from Holland – Thank You, Saskia!
Walden Pond bathers
robin’s nest
oh how lovely are these pics, such a nice glimpse into your life Dee!!
thanks, Saskia — it’s been a hot month, but one with some excitement, as well as lots of quiet time… a nice balance.
i really like Ghost House…is there an earlier post about it?
the cloth-to-cloth weavings are so interesting, complex
Grace — as it turns out there are quite a few earlier posts related to ‘Ghost House’ – the bottom link reveals the thinking behind —
first the ‘Happy Hut’ quilt that this is the bleached out version of (at the end of this post) –
http://deemallon.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/pins-in-my-mouth-and-on-my-lap/
then, a pinned early version here:
http://deemallon.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/blonde-in-the-mirror/
and with a smaller structure, here:
http://deemallon.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/off-the-floor-and-onto-the-wall/
and with ‘Happy Hut’ for comparison, on the floor, early on, here (with the most text):
http://deemallon.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/bleached/
ali, I agree about the cloth-to-cloth weavings.. but the suggestion of weaving in any of these pictures is achieve with patchwork… the way that patchwork and weaving suggest each other is one reason, I think, that the woven-strips Jude Hill taught us are so popular with quilters…
thanks SO much for all those links…really interesting to see the
progression/changes as time went by. i love very much it’s present
form and don’t see it at all as “less” than…to me, i see more than.
How so much is at the foundation…my experience of it is.. all the
moments, days that are the foundation of our House, our Life.
to me, it talks about the Alzheimer woman i have cared for…and
have known before her present self for many years. she is so much
the house, a little off balance…the roof…and just Full of moments
that now rise and fall rise and fall in her awareness. it’s really
quite beautiful as is this cloth.
How big is it?
it’s about 39″ x 52″ – it will be smaller seamed, but not much. I guess for me it is only ‘less than’ in relation to the other version. On a practice note, I have been wanting to push myself to work with lighter colors for a long time, and this exercise of making a paler version of an existing quilt made that happen with kind of a formula. Halloween, I noticed, was one marking point in its construction… it would be nice to finish it by THIS Halloween.