imagination

listened to this video of W.S. Merwin over and over again this afternoon, whilst snipping, cutting and sewing; lots of interesting stuff, very much related to what I'm up to I think; it's well worth a listen  

 tried capturing the large spider on camera in his web by our back door, as soon as he noticed my presence he made a run for it! he's the blurry bit on the left below; we tend not to use the back door for entering and leaving the house, so he's usually undisturbed enabling him to catch all the insects he can muster, an eco-friendly way of keeping the mosquitoes out of the house

 some might recognize this bit of sewn cloth, a detail with a dog and two small birds from the Larger Cloth; yepski I have started to cut it up.....

not to worry, the snippets of fabric are not from the larger cloth, but rather the result of my handiwork with the scissors this afternoon: lots of scraps torn and cut into small squares for a soft filling; all for the Strange Doll

She/He is the woman/man bit also from the larger cloth (aka MyWorld)

whilst stuffing the Doll a spider attacking a mosquito fell from the ceiling, ha! more violence on the studio table, as I had just cut my finger and was bleeding on all those rags; blood, sweat and tears have gone into this doll

 first impression of the Strange Doll, the light is bad as it's evening and I am too tired to try and make a better photo; more details-in-stitch are required such as eyes for her and a mouth at the very least for him