The more I think about my creative process, the more I don't want to think about the it! While I'm a process oriented artist, I'd rather be "doing" the process than simply writing about it. So today, in pictures, this part of the process of writing about my creative process is all about auditioning a piece in progress. And I'll probably post more photos in the next day or so as I work towards completing this piece.
Digital printed cotton fabric, printed from one of my photo collages, layered atop a piece of painted timtex.
I've been having a very hard time bringing myself to cut up, stitch, or otherwise use this piece of fabric. And that is odd. Odd in that I could easily print a hundred more of this collage onto fabric, paper, or whatever, so why not???
A digital piece of fabric that I printed from one of my photo collages, layered atop a piece of painted timtex.
And now with a digtially printed sheer silk organza fabric layed atop the other two layers.
And now with a layer of osage orange dyed silk organza layerd atop the previous two layers. This piece will go through many auditions, layers, etc. before the first stitches take place, and once I start stitching I will then start auditioning more layers once again.
I found this pic in my files it was from 2002 when I taught in Cincinnati for the weaving guild there. The yellow fabrics and yarns were stunning hanging on the line under the large trees.
I have to take a break after over two hours of stitching on this piece. I dyed the fabrics today, the bottom half is dyed with indigo ala bound resist and then over dyed with cochineal. The top fabric, and middle two fabrics were dyed with cochineal cream of tartar and citric acid. The top fabrics are as follows crinkled silk haboti, deeper middle red fabric is silk organza, and the lighter middle fabric is silk dupioni. The backing is osage orange dyed cotton batik fabric and the batting is wool. 
I think I'll make some attachments with these silk organza fabrics, they have all been dyed with natural dyes. Somewhere in this mess I have some silk ribbons, yarns, etc. that I dyed at the same time that'll also look good on the surface of my latest baby. I also have some raw handspun muga silk yarn that'll do for branch defintion, can't seem to find my brownish raffia I had on hand - it was a weird coffee color that would work really well for branch material.