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ok. big storm coming…It's balancing on the Rim of the world at this very moment and will roll down from
the West any second… barometric pressure, whatever that is, is sensed as changing drastically

which is appropriate to the day.
I am uneasy, restless about this patchwork. maybe because it comes right after the Cloth to Cloth and the
Spirit Cloth. i think so. there was just a natural FLOW then and now, there is this challenge.
I spent much of the day trying to figure out how to patchwork a lizard and it didn't work, lizards are all
curves and i made 3 cloths and 3 lizard cut outs and …. nope.

so…i sat.
a while.
but wanted to
sew…which is what i have done every day now for what? 2 months?
so
back to butterfly 2. how can i make this…"me?" eeeee……
so i went to the shelf and took down the bag that has scraps from a woman i know…the bag called Probably
Will Never Use
and riffled through…hmmm. flowers. ok.
and here we are.

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8 responses to “butterfly 2 a”

  1. nandas Avatar
    nandas

    to jude… this will be you last workshop? ever? i had so wanted to study with you…. grace has been having such a marvelous time. i am on the brink of something in my process and was hoping for you philosophy to inform my path. but you must take care of yourself first and it sounds like you put sooo much into these workshops from the looks of everyones blogs that it must be exhausting. your blog is still a marvelous source for learning… wishing you the best.

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  2. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    jude…they hang there, i need to get apic of that chrysalis, its veryplain and i dont know how it willshow up….but they hang there, doing all thattransforming.i cant imagine if there is aFEELING that accompanies it?oh………but its what we all end up with/and so…let it ride.

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  3. jude Avatar
    jude

    it has changed. i have too. this will be my last workshop.

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  4. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    your cloth has a become a wonderful optical illusion. I see a tree and then I see a butterfly, but not both at the same time. wonderful…

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  5. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    Hello Grace…I really like your butterfly…it seems to change each time I look at it, or maybe when I blink…see, it is alive! Making the beasties is challenging to me too; I go through a grumpy phase each time and then Im startled and glad to see what happened despite my skeptic.

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  6. Manya Maratou Avatar
    Manya Maratou

    hi grace, I saw your comment on the class blog:-)) thanksblogger is sort of heavy today, takes too long I was going through a similar thoughts about what am I doing now with the seams and borders etc- and then It hit me: it is the trickster who lives in seams and all the inbetween placesand it made me happy to think that we are making houses for himit is worth cutting up an expanse of cloth, just to stitch it back together again, to make that in between space where he likes to be- like a prayer, or a praying act, whatever.inviting the agent of chaos, the creator, no?hugs

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  7. Patty Avatar
    Patty

    Grace, keep pushing it a bit. I thinkit will turn out not cute but something next with you using that fabric. I mean its up to you but maybe something you dislike is just what it needs to stir up a reaction-a next step to make it Graces.

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  8. Karen Turner Avatar
    Karen Turner

    yes… its perfect. I too have a bag called scraps I will never use – but it surprises me how often I find something useful – and beautiful – in there. My fabric collection is like my friends – theres always one I can turn to, no matter what the occasion or problem, and always one who turns to me too. I guess your problem-solving is evidence of your relationship with cloth.

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