meanwhile, i've been unloading goodies from my trip, and settling back into my home. amongst these treasures are two drexel living room club chairs that i remember growing up with (mom bought them back in the 50's) that have been in storage in my folks' garage for nearly 25 years now. they are in quite a sorry state, but as such, are crying out for restoration and recreation...but more on them later... while dropping these off at my storage unit (where i have many antiques and other items that don't currently fit in my tiny cottage, but simply can't bring myself to let go of yet), i spotted a huge basket full to overflowing with.....silk ties!! glorious and wondiferous silk ties from days of old when i worked for lawyers and wore suits (oh, the hideous crime against humanity!!). ties were one of the few garments with which one could be creative when working in such a conservative environment...and i took to them with wild abandon! old ties, new ties, hand painted/hand dyed ties...it didn't matter, so long as they were silk, i loved them!
being the horribly addicted clothes horse that i have always been, i amassed, quite literally, hundreds of ties! it seems the last time i counted them, i reached 346 before i gave up because they kept turning up in the oddest of places.
these, of course, were immediately loaded up into the truck and brought back home. i think at one time i had contemplated the idea of making a crazy quilt...or maybe it was a dresden plate quilt?...from them. clearly, they had other ideas since they immediately began whispering a myriad of requests...all related to my more current work with slow cloth, kantha stitching, boro techniques and spirit cloth! i think these lovely snakes of silk will live in my studio for a bit before slithering their way into my quilting...
tonight, however, i am going to watch eat, pray, love and start a small cloth for something i have in mind...
oh...and i saw this fragment of wonderfulness today...
namaste'
