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on Thursday, daughter Jenny arrived from California.  long story of goat transport.  here and then back.  too many details.  but she has come and gone.  and without a hitch!!!!  this is the first time i took a trip without going anywhere at all.  i "talked" her here and back on phone.  hours.  but she was driving the old truck that broke down big time when she moved in August.  there was fear about this trip.  but, tada  All's Well. 

AND i am back to stitching.

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the colors are wierd but i wanted the kantha of the tree to show up and this is the best i seemed able to do with the available light.  Tree is growing.  in the moment, South to North, but then, East to West will come.  learning a LOT about kantha as moving design element.  a LOT.

 

 

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42 responses to “a SunDay”

  1. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    can you see it going through that place on the right where all
    the egg shaped things are born, which would include baby moons????
    i really like that.

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  2. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    I love the kantha tree… it IS movement, its tree & river-like, beautiful.

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  3. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    i swear i can see it pulsing…and baby moons! i have an old card w/a beautiful image of a blue moon tree. i’ve always meant to create one somehow.

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    the through of it. yes.

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  5. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it is like your SoundSong…Calling, isn’t it.
    yes, it is.
    now i know what to make for you Someday, when i know
    enough

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    hey Cin
    Kantha is where it’s at.

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  7. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    going to be a lot of
    through
    i’m thinking.
    oh Jeez. Thank you so beyond thank you for teaching me,
    for taking me to a place where this stuff can happen.

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  8. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    WOW, looking gorgeous Grace. Your tree is growing so beautifully. I couldn’t think of a better stitch to represent a tree. Baby moons, what a lovely thought. Trees and moons together, another lovely thought. The vibrant orange at the top looks stunning. I never used to like orange, saw FAR TOO MUCH of it in the 70’s, but now I love it. Happy you had a good visit with your daughter. Why does your daughter bring her goats along? My daughter has the happiest most adorable goats. She rescues them as newborns from the slaughter house, brings them up like little babies. They adore her, and she them. AND YES she brings them to visit! They love running around my place. When they were babies they used to love sitting in front of the fire. (sorry for rambling) Love your cloth, Marg. ox

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  9. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    OOOOO What I wouldn’t give for a little herd of goats! Some other lifetime-too late for this one (the only one I know)-and that ORANgE gloWs! Someone email me what KANTHA is–I will be away but read it when I get back–Perfet for your waving river tree of moons to come. I was gonna turn off–gotta go to sleep soon–nearing midnight, but–had to have one more look at the dashboard. GLAD!

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  10. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace I like that movin’ through the moons part too 🙂 It is a river of a tree, now isn’t it?! It’s so beautiful, I’d love to touch it and feel those stitches.

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  11. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    I didn´t know so much about kantha yet so I looked around and I found a good information at http://www.sashaworld.com/kantha/kantha.htm. Perhaps it is interesting for others too.
    I love the tree which is appearing out of the orbit.

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  12. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    oh, yes, the texture and the flow of it….want to touch it.

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  13. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Topography of the soul…just thinking. Glad Jenny had a safe trip.

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  14. jude Avatar
    jude

    it is where you have always been, i just helped you notice.

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  15. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Thank you Doris the link works without the . after htm, like this
    http://www.sashaworld.com/kantha/kantha.htm
    I really needed to see what Kantha is too!

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  16. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    the flow…

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Jude uses kantha a lot in her cloths, just as a quilting
    stitch sometimes…
    i got totally fascinated by it because of wanting to somehow find an essence of Wind.
    i love it for that and now i am loving it for this
    tree. maybe to me it is an essence stitch??? when i don’t
    want anything literal, just the sense of it’s presence????
    anyway,,it’s not much the way i use it.
    just equal-ish stitches on top and under …like _ _ _ _
    lines after lines of that.
    if you stitch horizontally, the ripples will come out
    as vertical and vice versa. you can do it so there is
    just the barest amount of ripple too….it’s the thread
    tension that causes more texture.
    does that make sense?

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Mo…look below at response to Doris
    and i’ll take a close up later today at part of the
    spirit tree . i am a very messy UNcompulsive stitcher,
    so this will be a little embarassing, but eee oh well.
    ok…back to work till later……….

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  19. Eva Ucgatwork Avatar
    Eva Ucgatwork

    Hi Grace,
    ha!! Just spotted the orange(again!) lizard . As always, my favourite creatures of the desert.
    Grace, your cloth is turning into a real magic cloth!!!
    WOW..not the most intellectual comment so far, but it’s coming from the heart!
    Take care,
    eva

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  20. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    thank you for the . 🙂

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  21. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    yes, I think I know what you mean. I always tried to avoid the ripples, but I saw it at Judes cloth that it has an exciting texture, now I experiment with this.
    The variations of kantha are interesting too for me.

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  22. nance Avatar
    nance

    jude’s right grace! i knew that about you right away!

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  23. nance Avatar
    nance

    well i must have missed that you were going to stitch a tree…or i had a brain freeze… when i first looked at it i thought river… a river running through it…but a tree is much more in keeping with your symbols. it will be exquisite. already is. what i love is that you are doing a quilting pattern over all the existing elements. that is just so great to me. congratulations…

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  24. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    pathways….that’s what trees are, pathways….

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  25. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Yes… Pathways and connections…. Connecting all stages of life connecting the earth to the heavens, the human to the divine.

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  26. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it’s where i have always been in my mind
    but
    being able to let it come through my hands into
    tangible form…
    you did that.

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  27. jude Avatar
    jude

    Well whatever. It took both of us.
    Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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  28. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    she raises registered dairy goats. the ones she doesn’t
    want for her growing milk/cheese dreams, she needs to
    sell and does, to others doing the same. she delivered
    some that were sold from the place in Arizona and one of
    her own bucks to a woman in N. New Mex. picked up one
    of her bucks she’d left behind when she moved because he
    had a full dance card of “dates” to fulfill. it’s
    complicated.
    ORANGE
    it complete eludes me, but i have grown FOND of orange in
    this last year or so. i actually think it might be due
    to Deb Lacativa’s cloth dyeing? i LOVE what she does with
    the colors……..??? for many many years, i am liking
    orange and certain reds now. hmmmm.

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  29. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i really look forward to participating in the Goat
    Thing. it will be a good life for sure.
    one of her goats is claimed by me, Lucky Star, her name.
    she is a very thoughtful goat. as in, thinks a lot.
    but, i guess really, is also a considerate goat too.
    she is being bred to my other one, the buck, TenZen, who
    i named after the Dalai Lama but daughter worried that
    wasn’t nice so spells it this way.

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  30. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    they feel good

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  31. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it’s the ripple that i love/Want

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  32. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    texture. flow. it does that so beautifully and
    unselfconsciously

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  33. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    topography. one of my favorite things…

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  34. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yup

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  35. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    hey Eva…that lizard. i don’t know. i have feelings
    about that lizard. it might “go”. it’s well, i don’t
    know…
    the cloth is not
    intellectual
    is about Heart…so perfect.

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  36. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i don’t know….
    again, the tree here is a surprise to me still.
    and it won’t be all over, just where it is. will go
    through some, but not many, really.

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  37. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i think of pathways when i think of their roots,
    connecting one to another around the planet

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  38. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it did. and it does ~

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  39. manya Avatar
    manya

    grace I am always touched by what I see here and especially when the blasted machines let me actually see the pictures
    the image of a river of stitch has been in my dreams for some time now and the words “capturing the essence of wind” are after my own heart
    once when I was still a darbouka player I tried to have a conversation with colleages telling that what if a drum solo pnstead of showing off speed and dexterity would try to capture the essence of a rhythm, something like the heart that beats to a dance, a specific dance
    i got blank stares and rapid change of subject, and realised that that these people are not my “pack”
    here, with ripples and motion, wind and winged words feels like home
    and naming a goat after the Dalai Lama is love. and why i love you.

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  40. manya Avatar
    manya

    YES! to all

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  41. Eva Ucgatwork Avatar
    Eva Ucgatwork

    Well, of course it is a very heartfelt cloth.
    I just wanted to say “WOW” (not a very intellectual comment) as a simplfied expression for “Grace, that’s a magnificent, brilliant, fantastic cloth!!” I just shortened my admiration in a way my students do it all the time…”WOW, cool!”
    Best wishes,
    eva

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  42. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    yes, I think it is like “Calling”. I’ll need to give that a listen while looking….

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