its a wrap

I used an old Thomas the Tank Engine Sheet to experiment with wrap pants (the girls loved Thomas when they were small so these are actually from when K was young).  If you ignore the engines - I find the lattice fabric makes a neat design for these pants. If you Google wrap pants/sarong pants/fisherman pants (which are technically different pants) you will find a variety of tutorials for making these - I used several for reference and I can't even find one of them now.

Next time I will probably make them wider so they will wrap to the front more.  On C's I set on a wide waistband or tie. I like the way it looks better than the narrow string ties.  You can see a tutorial for how to put them on here.

These are intended to be 'house' pants for the girls. 

We are desperately wishing for spring.

Remember my art journal? It got laid aside. I picked it up recently so that I could make some sample pages for the girls' Poetry and Play group. 

The poem is an old one. One I wrote in 2005.

Friday, April 08, 2005

map of the world

your map seems clear

a red line disappearing over the horizon

no bends, no curves, no interest

and you almost wish for a loop

to strangle yourself in

north, east, west, south

are not directions they are not

even suggestions - they don’t exist

our eldest child has a dreamy map

full of sweeping lines of travel

and distant vistas like the brushstrokes

of a Chinese watercolor painting

a happy land to wander

with no clear destination

our baby seems to be geometric

edges with the arts and crafts order

of Frank Lloyd Wright

passion delineated in vivid color

and my map is simply white tracing paper

marked with lines copied from other maps

- my destination is travel companion

some days, I wish I could

fold my map into the shape

of an albatross and glide away