Daily Notes- February 15

                                

These two began in the components class that Jude was teaching before her move to the new place. You can see my little one inch components were sewn into small four squares.  Then I started adding borders from the scraps available to me.  Riley didn't like me getting up and wandering off.  So the color choices were odd but now they seem quite okay.

This week I have been adding more borders.  The one on the left got a coral border with a small scrap of the "onion skin-lime" eco print and then the grape juice eco dye which is more grape than the pink it looks here.  On the right- this one is darker--- and has new borders of the darkest of the grape juice eco dye, some slices of a very grey iron water/ rusted tin can/ string experiment.  A slightly more lime segment of the onion skin eco print.  These lime cloths are all linen and you can't see it here but they have a silky shimmer to them which is really quite lovely.

They each are getting close to letter size.  The one on the left needs two borders top and bottom or whatever- and the other only needs one wide border on, I think, the top edge.  I haven't decided on the colors yet.  For the left perhaps the rusty brown to bring the ones in the midsection forward.  The one on the right is pretty well color balanced from inside to outer edges.  Perhaps the silver gray of the right side rectangle for the top border?

When I get them to letter size- they will be complete.  And that's what they will be- letters.  They hold quite a bit of sadness and sorrow.  The one on the right was made before the one on the left.  And there is the first one I showed here- which is larger than these.

I am not sure- but I may have begun another of these pages.  If I did it is hidden in a tub of cloth and will surface in it's own good time.

G has gone off the the Home Show in Portland so I am here alone.  The temperature outside is in the single digits even with the sun shining- making a eye hurting glare on the snow. I have a book to read so I won't feel lonely.  And I can always go down and sort cloth, fold it and think about it.

My mammogram result was "normal" so that was a lovely Valentine in yesterday's mail.