All in a Week's Work

Doesn't look like much, does it?  This is a week's worth of winding and binding.  That handstitched mokume takes a LONG time.  The dark green piece, just to the left of the bigger white pole on the right, is handwoven.  Until recently it was a piece of woven shiboried art cloth, woven of silk and tencel.  Soon it will be discharged.  That piece alone took me two days to stitch and gather.

The light khaki colored piece in the middle is another handwoven fabric that already had shibori threads woven into it.  It's been on my shelf since it was woven, maybe four years ago.

I took a break yesterday, to prepare for quilting a second challenge piece for Fiberactions' March 15 reveal.  But it's back to shibori prep for a while.  It's quite a meditative process, and I'm enjoying building an inventory of fabrics to be shiboried in the near future.  It's called delaying gratification.