One Secret to Shaping Beautiful Things: Not the Whole Cloth

Four years ago, a friend brought me a gorgeous, vintage Italian sheet. It languished in my closet because I couldn’t bear to cut the fabric. This spring, while working on a piece of writing, I realized that sometimes the whole cloth, the whole conception, is too much. Attention needs to be focused. The piece needs to be shaped and edited. And so I also took out the Italian sheet, cut it, and sewed it into the curtains you see here. Now the old sheet hangs in the sunlight, with a new life as curtains. May you find the courage to take scissors to your art, in service to finding it’s most beautiful shape.