Countdown Quilt

My heart opened like a flower under sky. 

Lorca

Art Fabric

Where this future will take our artists can not be forecast.  They belong in the mainstream of modern art.  It’s wholeness, the inseparability of all its fundamentals, it’s materials, it’s techniques - demands to be experienced as art beyond craft.  

Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larson

Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric 1972

Break through

 Marimekko back in progress 

35 weeks

I hope that my own internal and mysterious rhythms will be revealed by a body of work that to my standards is thoroughly honest.
Nancy Crow

cloth of a long marriage

praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy,
and for objects and knowledge curious
Walt Whitman

gratitude

It's a pattern of aliveness, one of allowing.
One of not knowing what will come next
yet at the same time, comfortable in the knowledge that it will be the same as it always has been.
A looseness
A going with it
A plunging in.
But also a feeling of tenderness and serenitiy.  A kind of joy.
I've been working steadily on my gratitude log cabin piece
195 more weeks until we are married 50 years.
Hoping that everything stays the same.
Our health, our minds, the world, our kids' well-being.

Journal text from December 11