Appliqué Magic

At the end of September, 2013, a clean-out-the-closets attack coincided with a craft attack (see 10.6.2013). I pulled out a t-shirt that Jim had purchased at a Hilltribe artisan center in Thailand in 1990. The hemp t-shirt had been worn throughout our trip and was stained — and it isn’t the type of think Jim would wear around here anyway. Sewn onto the front of the shirt was what turned out to be an old Hmong tribe textile — lots of appliquéd triangles on resist-dyed indigo cloth. I was inspired. Really, I was seized, like some magic jumped out of the fabric and into my soul. – Continued at Mad In Pursuit>>>