Reluctantly, I have altered the bed sheets. Each sheet will hang from a wooden beam threaded through the top hem. The hem pocket needed...

While stitching I had to resolve technical issues involved in hanging the 4 tree cloths.Husband Ron understands material and joint...

April was 'Pollen Moon' because the Douglas-fir released great clouds of yellow-orange pollen from young bright-orange cones high in the...

My lumber jack/sailor friend helped me with a trial installation of the 4 tree cloths.  Unfortunately, the wind came up and it started to...

The Maple tree cloth's Battenberg lace deteriorated and was not able to support it so it came inside for repairs. Safety pins held the...

I called February's new moon 'Rain Moon'.March wind and rain storms were memorable so I called it 'Storm Moon'.The trees had responded to...

Here am I stitching while traveling on the Coho ferry to Port Angeles, Washington, USA. One of the passengers, a tourist from China,...

Here are 3 cloths waiting for their 'Cold Moon' (January) band of running stitch.  I took a cloth with me whenever I had to go out....

I called the October new moon 'Falling Leaf Moon' and worked autumn leaf colours into the bed sheet.The hole was made after the...

Over winter there were a number of challenges I had to respond to.A wet, heavy snow accumulation broke the string and the 2nd Cedar cloth...

Early December I brought the Cedar cloth inside. It was deteriorating much faster than the others because it stayed wet.  I made repairs...

Each new moon I took my colour studies tools outside and visited each tree.  Joen Wolfram's Color Tool was an invaluable aid.  Back...

An important aspect of my work is the concept of time. Not time as measured by a clock or calendar. I saw evidence of time each time I...

I quickly became aware of the challenges of stitching outside while the bed sheets were wrapped around the trees.I live in a "rain"...

After sampling... ...I used the colour studies to find matching coloured threads... ...and headed outside to stitch on the cloth.

I was reminded of the work of Jean-Philippe and Dominique Lenclos. They produced a 'systematic inventory of the colours of the regional...

During fall and I was entranced by the Maple's colours. I decided to stitch the colours I saw.

I went back to sampling more eco-printing using India Flint's methods. There was dyeing rather than leaf printing... ...but they weren't...

'In Praise of Ironing'It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet,has to be ironed, the sea in its whiteness;and the hands keep on...

(Source: Google images, source unknown)I wondered how I would respond to the trees' staining on the bed sheets. Could I make a bed? How...