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it’s cold. very much Wind.

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the entire right lower part is    off. 

i think i will leave that pinned.  worked at basting both sides down as far as the bottom of  the center piece.   fooled around more with the little goat cloth.  it is just pinned.

but the BIG news is that i cut the slits for the Sun rays  as in Jude's Design Mending Tapestry Style.  am not at all sure how i feel about this but it is a done deal.  there will be three rays in each  quadrant.  

it is interesting how everything seems so ify until the stitching happens that makes the pieces all One and then it is all changed.  have been watching the videos closely and can even see that there.   i watch the pieces cut, placed and think…"how on earth will that work" and then ……  it Does.  so i am counting on that occuring here too. 

Wind has been intense and constant…up to 50 /60mph .  it begins to wear you down. 

 

 

 

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21 responses to “it’s cold. very much Wind.”

  1. jude hill Avatar
    jude hill

    stitch yes, it is a thing that works. i feel this big cloth will be a big teacher. that is what is working here for me. no wind here, which is just as strange.

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  2. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes. everything i’ve learned, everything i need to learn.
    and one of the things that is amazing me about it is
    that there is no “tension” in ME about it. just a
    steady Doing of it. doing what needs to be done in any
    moment. even knowing i will have to take out all those
    bottom strip bastes….is just, oh well.
    and also…the sense that it will be ongoing forever.
    it will get to a place where it is stable but then
    over time, it will change in many ways. that is such
    a very very good feeling.
    Wind/no Wind
    no Wind/Wind

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  3. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Its a wind-wind situation, eh?

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  4. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes. wind/wind. i think of it as like the ocean, the sea.
    there is that expansion contraction…like childbirth, like tide.
    it won’t stop. it hits the house broadside, breaths and then
    hits again. over and over and over.
    then more
    there is nothing to do but listen

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  5. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    sounds like you have become one with this work. it is taking shape day by day and soon it will be as it should be. i like the idea of the sun’s rays surrounding the center piece. hope the wind dies down soon.

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  6. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    Oh grace that fire! i don’t have an open fire in my house – i used to live in houses with open fires and i miss those flames, the smell and the crackles and sparks.
    Just wanted to say that magic moment when the stitching brings life to the work, i do understand that. That is why i sew things so slowly by hand. Something new is coming to being through the stitching. It can keep you working tensely away all night unable to let it go – then you shake it out, hold it up and it is complete.
    How is your crow on the boro cloth?

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  7. Martine Avatar
    Martine

    hold onto your cloth on windy times………….
    XXXm

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  8. judy keathley Avatar
    judy keathley

    grace –your process–well, sure sounds like you’re in the flow –no resistance –allowing the cloth to lead —i love this.
    i also happen to love the sun ray slits –seems to open things up some –air things out —
    maybe something about that wind–
    ” a place where it is stable but then over time , it will change in many ways.” ah–life.

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  9. judy keathley Avatar
    judy keathley

    thats funny , valerianna

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  10. Herm Avatar
    Herm

    i’m glad that you are done weaving the big piece and can now sit and enjoy the stitching! i like very much the idea of the sun rays!! we have had little bit of snow, then ice and now it is just raining.

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  11. Susan C Avatar
    Susan C

    I love what you say about the Doing. I am getting that with the weaving and then stitching to hold all together. There is a wonderful feeling of contentment about it all – it is very satisfying.
    Sorry I have been away lately. I am in awe of what you are doing – the big cloth. Heirloom.

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  12. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    grace, i read all the comments on the class blog and loved the story of the mallard girl. i like the idea of a pocket on the back with that in there. just a secret message to your girl. as always, i am touched by your cloth and process. glad we will continue to see it’s progress.

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  13. cindy Avatar
    cindy

    hi grace,
    i didn’t know if you would see my reply to your comment on my “lost in a sea of green” post in class, and wanted to make sure you knew how much I appreciated your thoughts on leaving it be. thanks.

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    elizabeth, i need to come over to your blog. it’s been
    a while. the crow/raven is patient. watching. quiet.

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    hold on to Everything. it is very easy to relate to
    more ummmm, honest cultures who have remained nearer the
    elements that my own. how Wind is always a Being. the
    Katchina’s of the First People here. it is truly how
    it
    IS.

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    herm…i still need to take the whole bottom apart and
    reweave. but that will be easier now that i have made
    the large flat table top.
    the weather keeps changing

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Susan…we are away when we need to be…never a sorry
    about it. such a surprisingly big cloth. it takes
    commitment

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yup. poor you all. you will see it till you are blue
    in the face most likely.

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  19. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    cindy…i didn’t till i saw this…so…good you posted
    it here too.
    thank you for responding back…and i look forward to
    seeing how it goes…will you leave it? change it?
    wait a looooooooong time? whenever i watch someone else
    in their process it helps me too…so i am glad.
    really love your creating a blog. in a lot of ways, it
    makes things much easier.
    on we go…xoxo

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  20. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    i look good in blue..

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  21. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    smile…well bless your heart then. cause it’s
    going to happen.
    though….as i type that, i think too that the weather IS
    changing….tho still can’t make up it’s mind to stay,
    and so, interspersed with all that big cloth, will be the
    big real world outside. the only thing i am inclined to
    photograph as much as cloth is dirt and plants. and my
    dye experiments. so, we’re good.

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