Satori
So I was working on my cloth last night, and I have all these little bits of fabric...I have butterfly fabric, a fabric that literally is a brick wall print, jumping frogs going after little bugs, a dreamy purple that was called angel dreams or something...
I sewed them into triangles and they all meet in the center, with 10 wedges of prints that I then cut into a square, and each triangle is sewn to the next, and now I will put different strips of fabric around them in a border, with a total of 14 fabrics and 14 places for a charm/crystal etc to fall and mean something on the cloth.
But, what I started to do was create little fabric islands the I was going to applique onto the fabric, and I got to about four, and started thinking of all the hand stitching I'd have to do and started on the triangle thing.
Anyway, I have these four little fabric bits and it started me thinking. Remember those felt boards the teachers had when we were kids, and she'd put up letters or words or animals and so stories etc on the board? I was thinking what If I kept making the islands of fabrics with symbolic prints, and then let the querent lay them out on a blank spread cloth, wherever they wanted, then you could drop the stones on them, or, read the pattern they chose to lay out! And maybe they don't use all the fabric patches, but they only use four...brick wall, butterfly, clouds and footprint.
"You are currently trying to move/change but you keep hitting a brick wall. Wait a while for the weather to change, and start down a new path."
The simplicity of it is amazing.
I sewed them into triangles and they all meet in the center, with 10 wedges of prints that I then cut into a square, and each triangle is sewn to the next, and now I will put different strips of fabric around them in a border, with a total of 14 fabrics and 14 places for a charm/crystal etc to fall and mean something on the cloth.
But, what I started to do was create little fabric islands the I was going to applique onto the fabric, and I got to about four, and started thinking of all the hand stitching I'd have to do and started on the triangle thing.
Anyway, I have these four little fabric bits and it started me thinking. Remember those felt boards the teachers had when we were kids, and she'd put up letters or words or animals and so stories etc on the board? I was thinking what If I kept making the islands of fabrics with symbolic prints, and then let the querent lay them out on a blank spread cloth, wherever they wanted, then you could drop the stones on them, or, read the pattern they chose to lay out! And maybe they don't use all the fabric patches, but they only use four...brick wall, butterfly, clouds and footprint.
"You are currently trying to move/change but you keep hitting a brick wall. Wait a while for the weather to change, and start down a new path."
The simplicity of it is amazing.