hoodiegoodie

a while ago i made myself a hoodie

because i knew i was going to need it at Haystack

and then

it left me

for someone else.

now the temperatures are sliding southward

i needed something to keep me warm

[i do have my coat but those sleeves are not practical when hovering around a cauldron]

so i cut and sewed [by hand, with silk]

added pockets here and there [but DANG, forgot to add one for a poem at the back. ah well]

made an enormous hood

that has buttons on it so i can play with it as a collar

and dyed it with leaves that had found their way into my pockets

on a favourite hill a month or so back [relax, they didn't cross any borders and went from pocket to boil-up, now in freezer in case of re-use]

the materials were from the red,white+blue thrift store in New Orleans

and included a duck-egg blue cashmere, a lilac silk, a brown merino [that brown was really too fuzzy for clear prints but so warm] and some rather paler scraps that had been cut from cardigans i am re-shaping

so this hoodie

like the other

is constructed and dyed with special magic.

the warmth comes not just from the physical materials...

i'm not good at self-portraits

so these pix will have to do

i added a good bit either side. hips, ya know?

sideways. ah well. here's the hood down, as collar

hood in roughly a hood-shaped arrangement

you'll just have to imagine the face peeking out

buttons on the hood opened

i told you the hood was enormous.

delicious detail...mostly hidden on the hood. but i know it's there and that's what matters

looks like something that Ötzi might have worn