Water

dried - top, originally uploaded by jckirner.

That was the question - could I mimic ripples on water.
Recent play with glue gel resist and Jacquard's Dynaflow fabric dye/paints had me curious to try more.


Thinking back to smocking efforts of the past, but not wanting to create such a rigidly rippled structure, I chose to stagger the spacing of the dots, then stitched between them in a staggered manner.


Gathered, then painted with a combo of Azure Blue and violet. Intending a more indigo-like color.


Dried overnight.


Unfurled. And a surprise delight at the contrast between the colored/uncolored threads.


Ironed flat to finish.

Water-like? Yes!

From injury - inspiration

cuff play 3a, originally uploaded by jckirner.

I pulled something in my wrist. Not a major pain, but enough to imobilize usage in that arm from anything heavier than a pencil.
So I repurposed one of those disposable heat pads shaped for the back/shoulder into a wrist bandage for the night.
The heat helped - and the shape of the bandage inspired play with creating cuffs.

The fun part is combining fabrics. The African batiks I had leftover from another project combined in brilliant ways. An assembly oops turned into an okay when I reversed an Aborigine print for the cuff inside.

Contrasts of linen and embroidered silk worked fairly well, tho' my first intention was for the linen on the outside - I prefer it peeking from within.

This dramatically colored batik version is too large to wear - and will need to be repurposed or reshaped! But I don't undo things - I just move on.

There was fun playing with my button stash too - combining broken bits and drawing on others.

YaY - She's home!

YaY - She's home!, originally uploaded by jckirner.

Enough with doctors and hospitals and meds. Back to regular-ish life!!

Although I realize there may be a few more bobbles in the road to our daughters full healing, it certainly feels like we're on the downhill side of the process.

Her door pictured above - an impromptu bargello heart created awhile ago when the piecing process intrigued me.