I’ve wanted to make a queen bed-size covering for a while now. Watching Jude as she hunkers down … seeing Hazel tangled up in blue … always being amazed by Judy Martin and her daughter April … reading story in Grace’s big cloth … loving Dee’s cloth collaging … taking heart in Saskia’s exploration of larger cloths … and so many others besides. Kindred Spirits all.
Never one to follow the usual paths, I plan to not-plan. At least not too much. For now I have gathered cloth …
Much of it clothing, long-loved, none more than this …
India print cotton torn from a dress I got in high school … that I wore when Don and I were dating … that has traveled with us to every home we have ever lived in.
I wondered how Don would feel about me tearing it up.
“To sleep under?” The tenderness in his voice was all the answer I needed.
So now I am beginning, mixing one strand of Deb’s thread with one strand of DMC, lest I run out too quickly …
Stitching big and bold … planning to collage an entire king-size flannel sheet with pieces of me … a work in progress, yet to be named.
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
Love this, love your asking and his response. A big cloth, a big life, then, now, to come.
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Grace – I dream of yesterdays and tomorrows as I stitch in the now … may you be well
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So wonderful to see a project come to life!! Beautiful!
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Thank you … welcome to the blog!
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I remember that dress.
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And I remember the India print cloth behind the couch at Ludwell … seems like last year …
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Wow!
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(((Mo)))
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Yay Liz! This will be fun. Its nice to see memory-laden fabric like your dress take new form.
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Dana – I wish I had saved more of my clothing over the years, but this will be enough … it will be fun
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Oh, Liz, just Love. The dress story most of all.
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This dress holds so much memory … I almost expected sand to fall out of the hem as I opened it
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To sleep under a bit of your early her/his-story, to dream of how it began, how it has gone, how it continues… love stitched into your queen sized bed cloth; to know how romance sparks in small and large ways among those of us with long term marriages. How love is ever present, in so many ways…
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how much has changed … how much remains the same … and now I know where this might go …
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you will love this one.
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already do …
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a bold step, tearing up that dress., all in a good cause……your husband sounds like a wonderful partner
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I have been looking at this dress, thinking of tearing into in for years …
https://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/01/so-much-to-remember.html
and yes, Don is a true companion, in the words of Marc Cohn’s song
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