it look a long time.  i happened upon it by accident.  but it seems to be the necessity.  ????

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21 responses to “finding the one necessity”

  1. handstories Avatar

    “locate the most tender and live spot”
    grace, you have got me thinking hard.
    it is hard. it is frightening. i push it away & there it is looking at me in the mirror. i need more time, space & sleep to really look at this, but that tenderness is being poked.
    and you are a writer, with words and stitch.

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  2. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    cindy…thanks. you are in a different developmental space…i
    have the highest regard for younger women with children, marriages,
    jobs that they devote so much of themselves to….
    and thank you for commenting. a lot of times, recently for sure,
    i second guess myself about what is “too much” for this blog.
    but being the sagittarian that i am….~ so i just will hope to
    be forgiven if i cross lines.
    i am still very much in a state of wonder at how “complete” the
    sewing feels. it eases all of the urges to “make”, to “tell”. in a way that nothing before it did. so gratefull to have found
    Spirit Cloth.
    be well and love,

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  3. handstories Avatar

    well, grace, i am not as young as i sound, or behave! married young, 20, had kids late, 35-39, and am just tired out these days. seem to be friends w/those who are a decade younger, or one or two older. i was told in my late 20’s that i was a late bloomer. twenty yrs. later i’m still hoping it’s true.
    i think the only lines that you can cross are ones that you create yourself. it’s your blog/world, people can choose to visit or not. some of us want to live here.
    i’m very grateful, too.
    love back at you.

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  4. jude hill Avatar

    it is good to see these together.

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  5. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    it is to me too. so much to finish. so much to
    begin. so much that i haven’t even started yet.

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  6. Jill Avatar

    these are so beautiful – so poignant – so very inspirational. i am a great believer in synchronicity – you have shown me the way forward – i have been stuck in a story with no clue how to proceed – thank you Grace.

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  7. Jill Avatar

    sharing is connection – it heals us all

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  8. Penny B Avatar

    Oh, Grace, a wonderful gallery of cloths with stories. My favourite has always been No,2 with the crow swooping above the tiny blue clad human.

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  9. jude hill Avatar

    that’s the best part

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    jill..i have to go to work, but will return later to
    your kachina on your blog…really really great little
    beauty…and….well….later.

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  11. lyn lewis Avatar

    I just love the second piece but they are each very special.
    stunning!
    OH and…. about my moon with the howling wolves!
    Grace the moon is woven and stitched and all Ive done is lay small pieces of lace on and coloured them with a pro marker to suggest the moons face.
    But I also laid the moon on a roughly cut circle of dusky voile to suggest the glow that surrounds the moon? Ive not stitched it down around the voiles edges so allowing it to be a little raised around the moons edge, which I did stitch down. Infact I may have laid 2 different tones of voile down beneath it, must have look at it!
    If you double click on the pic it may just increase here, enough for you to see it more clearly?

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  12. Herm Avatar
    Herm

    beautiful pieces, never seen them before — love the colors you used!

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    don’t you wish sometimes we could transport ourselves
    like in startrek or something? or, like, have
    simultaneous lives?

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i think there is a way on typepad to put a little
    gallery of pics on the sidebar???? need to check that
    out. i like seeing them too. i’d like them for
    company here.

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes. and her circle of stones.

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    it’s the dusky voile a little raised edges
    how to keep something a little raised….
    i DID double click…but want to see
    closer closer closer

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    herm….hmmmm. this makes me think more about the
    sidebar “gallery” thing again. they are there…back
    somewhere in the archives…but, wouldn’t it be nice
    to have them just There? like in Flickr????
    ok…i have investigation to do……..

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  18. Deb G Avatar

    You can set up a “photo album.” I have a few in my side bar. But sometimes I like the flicker one’s better. I like that some things can be seen as a slide show.

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  19. Deb G Avatar

    Deciding what is necessary is part of the process, yes?

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  20. handstories Avatar

    oh, yes, & i do love star trek, one of my secret pleasures…probably because my mother wouldn’t let me watch it.

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  21. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    but it seems to change…necessary….
    sigh.

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