Small beginnings.  A friend stayed and we played in the studio.  She brought some lovely mordanted cotton that we covered with botanical prints.  We used parchment paper between layers to avoid ghost prints.  The papers were almost as lovely as the cloth.  I tacked a piece of one onto some slubby silk and did this small embroidery with wool thread.   The paper is only about 6” x 7”.  It needs a little more...not much but some dark then a frame. I think it is a gift for someone....

Testing

Fall is here and walking has begun again in earnest

After all, time heals all wounds 

And now I have only scars

I don't show them much and I’ll not talk about them here

Just let them fade

And be quiet memories

The studio has been re opened 

I have started experimenting

to see 

See if there is meaning for me 

in what is there

See if colors will sing again 

See if I still have a voice in fiber 

The little engine that could

Is blowing his whistle