Back in the day –before the word “base” was abased by the current occupant of the White House (I refuse to use either his name or his title)– I learned about making bases at Spirit Cloth.
At the time, I couldn’t imagine going beyond the piecing, but now I do see where the base is but a background for story. So I am finally back to the bed cloth, creating the base for the far right/west edge …
which will become midnight …
and then gradually move left into evening and sunset before emerging into the light of day in the middle of the cloth …
I’m stitching the strips of thrifted linen cloth with a combination backstitch followed by two running stitches …
something I dubbed the Texas Two-Step for the lovely marks it leaves on the B-side …
And so it goes …
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
The Texas two-step….good one! I love the dark of night on the edge and look forward to the gradations of day encroaching.
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’twill be a blanket of time
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Shades of blue! Looks great and that is a perfect stitch name!
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Thanks Nancy … I love to play with words
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love the vertical strips of sky colours over your horizontal in the sea of hope!
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Those verticals will become horizontals when the cloth hangs over the side of the bed … but the intersection of the two at the corner should be interesting … pillars of sky rising from the sea like a prayer
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It does look like teeny tiny foot steps! Flow on….
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hmmmm … that gives me an idea … if I stitch in circles ‘twould be even more like the trace of steps in a Texas dance hall
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Hi LA – way too complex for me – but what thought you have put into this work – whoever uses it will find so much positive energy in it. Go well. B
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’twill be for us … a memory cloth beneath which to sleep … hopefully for many years to come
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I love the transitions, and as ever, am in awe of your stitching. What a treasure this will be! Go well.
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the stitches are soothing … just going without having to think too hard about it
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