It's been a journey from my original plan, which was to make a new-fangled sampler ...
I even got so far as to stitch the lettering on the bottom half, seen here photographed with one of my new clip-on iPhone camera lenses ...
But even though I was happy with the clouds, created by loosely backstitching marks on the hand-dyed cloth ...
the lettering just didn't feel right, so I tore it out.
Then, while looking for something else entirely, I came across a long-lost envelope of Jude Hill's indigo-dyed "planets," which sent me running off in an entirely new direction ...
I'm still not 100% sure about the frame, but considering how the size seems near-perfect, I'm thinking it's meant to be.
Addendum: As I waited for this post to load, it occurred to me that the cloth has become an un-sampler ... US
