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wanting to stay home

no venturing out yet.  today i feel that for sure.  i want to work on the Diaries cloth.    a little while ago i was so intently focused i forgot to breathe and actually got dizzy for a minute.    i am beginning to understand something a little more.  i don't know what it is, but it is a strong felt~sense.  i need to stay with this cloth.  now, it's just basting down all the various pieces that i knew i wanted to be there.   they are like different "scenes", or places or something.  some more literal than others.  but getting them basted is just the very first step to what feels like it's going to be a    lot    more.  but it's just a feeling ~001

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am leaving all the outside edges loose so things can be mosaic'd in if that's what wants to happen.

 
 

 

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12 responses to “wanting to stay home”

  1. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    The collection of colours and textures in this piece are a visual feast, Grace….and oh, those dimples!

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  2. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Gosh Grace – this is so rich, I love it.

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  3. peggy Avatar
    peggy

    Grace, today is a good day to stay home, the moon is in Cancer. I feel the same.
    This is just so lovely and so you. I don’t really know how you come up with your color palettes but you’re tuned in to the vibrations, for sure!

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    it makes such a difference to put those stitches in, the touching. oh.

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  5. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    your fabrics are something! do you dye them yourself? oh i guess it doesn’t matter who has dyed them ! i am really liking your style Grace, the balance of shapes and colours are great. i too love spending time with my fabrics and even love the basting. i can get lost in an entirely different world and it feels beautiful. so good for your soul and spirit. enjoy your stitching. marg. ox

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it’s
    cloth
    and yes. a visual feast.
    Cloth.
    Cloth.
    Cloth.

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  7. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i do too. i am swooning.

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  8. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    cloth talks

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    the stitches.
    so light, this thing so far. just muslin OR whatever
    that “household” cloth is. and then what goes on it
    there is no anything else. that might or might not come.
    i don’t know.

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Margaret………..yes.
    it IS a world of its own. takes me in.
    some i have dyed…the darks of the ground cloth, yes.
    others over dye with mostly onion skin and tea
    the darks are with the Elderberry here. so different than
    from the Elderberry that Deb G gets…so i can’t really
    say anything that means much.
    it is of the deepest part of me, soul/spirit. yes.

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  11. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    here YOU are.

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  12. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Color and texture…it’s like you are absorbing a landscape…

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