I cut it

The fabric. All that shirt fabric that I have been fileting and dyeing and fondling and folding.

For the past two days I have been cutting and sticking (with a glue stick) my stripes onto an interfacing background in preparation for sewing it all together. Surprise. I am not fusing this. I am turning edges and going all out to be experimental and new (to me).

Progress so far.  Hold off on suggestions, please. I am working my way through this and there is still a bunch of stuff to go on here—windows and such, and I see some problematic areas that I need to address. That's why I used a glue stick. I can easily pull it off and replace it with something else before I get to stitching it all down. The sky is stitched. I had to see if my idea of how to stitch it was going to work. This is a fairly small piece and I am seeing that bigger pieces would be great to work on in this way. Lots of pretty teeny pieces in this. But this piece is a tryout.

Some of my goals in trying something different are:

• to simplify
• to loosen up
• to try colors that are not strictly natural, but chosen for aesthetic reasons
• to choose a subject that is personal and explore it

This is not for a show or to satisfy a theme or a size. It is just for me. I'm kind of excited.

Miles to go.