In any case, I decided to go back to Jude Hill's Spirit Cloth 101 class, thinking that I now have a context for the various techniques.
Since I've wanted to create a series in Southwest colors for our dining room table, I gathered up some cloth, tore it into strips, and wove a base ...
which I didn't really like, but I wasn't going to waste the strips, so I rearranged them a bit and decided to dye a blue blouse with Prairie Tea to make some turquoise for contrast.
But slipping the turquoise strips into the weave didn't get me where I wanted to go, so I started making some pre-basted square patches. One and a half inches to a side seemed too big ... one inch to a side seemed too small ... one and two tenths ended up being just right.
Looking at my little stack of patches I thought, "The Turquoise Trail ... of course!" And promptly went online to find a map to our first magical day in New Mexico ...
Then arranged my patches ...
and stitched them together with a rusty sun ...
Which I didn't like. Really ...
So I unpinned everything and tried again ...
Okay, better. For sure the snaking bits of cloth recalled the harrowing (for me) drive through twisting narrow roads. And the smaller bit of rust cloth had potential for a sun symbol.
So I stitched it all down ...
and will think about how to finish it ...
whilst helping my daughter pack for the move to their new home later this month.
