This is a [poor] photo of the style of textile art I've been doing in recent years. The colours are actually much richer, although they change in the differing light throughout the day.
Dyed and painted silk habotai, dupion, noil and velvet. Hand quilted to follow the flow and enhance.
It sounds pretentious to call them meditative pieces, but my aim was to lose myself in the flow as I painted and stitched, and for the final piece to serve as an aid to meditation.
Late last year I happened upon Spirit Cloth, http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/ the most wonderful journal of Jude Hill. I'm too technologically challenged to know how to safely post images from her site without breaching copyright or bandwidth, but I cannot speak more highly of her work, the process, techniques, and most importantly her vision.
The main blog documents the making of a quilt for a relative. She says,
The quilt is a story by default, but each fabric has a story too. The ties are like little tales [tails?] a perfect way to use up snippets of the past, too precious to discard, a small trail of moments in my life, to share and give as gifts, reminders of time apart. a way to be together. a short biographical sketch. a charm bracelet.
I visit this site daily. It never fails to fascinate, has been immensely inspiring, always smoothes the fractious wrinkles and soothes the stresses of a demanding day.
As I plan Erica's quilt, its a challenge to avoid copying. But Jude's work has opened my inner eyes to new creative vistas and cleared a path towards my vision of soul-full stitching.
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