ring ring
people say: HELLO!!!!! and what did you DO today?
me: sewed grass
people: oh
me: it's really beautiful
people: well, what did you do yesterday? (christmas)
me: sewed grass
people: are you ok?
and if they were to ask what i hope to do today, which they don't, i would have to say in all honesty:
sew more grass
i love the grass. maybe today i can finish that inner left stems worth. and then, finish stitching the small black and white forms that i don't know what they are yet.
Grace-ful grasses…a garden of cloth…xoxo,s
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the surface, it is developing. that’s nice.
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bless~ed you. i’m also thinking, while i stitch, if i want to make some effort toward “wording” what it is i
think i’m doing with this cloth work. no one really
sees it and so are left with whatever i tell them.
i say things like:
well, this one is really big. it’s recycle cloth that
i’ve dyed with leaves. kind of a collage of cloth
scraps and fragments. no, not one big picture, more like
many small rooms, but not rooms either, they just feel like that to me. kind of a mixture of the things i see
and the things i feel.
i’ve been studying with a woman on-line. 2 years now.
intend to continue forever.
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the surface.
the surface of a cloth.
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Everything will change.
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your grass is beautiful grace. i like what is happening here with your stitching. i also like the eclipsed four moons. did you do that as a discharge. very nice colors…i like this is perfect weather for sewing grass…it’s almost spring and need to get your garden growing. on-ward. and yes to continuing forever…
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thank you ~
the moons are Deb Lacativa’s moons as is the
wild flaming sky in the center under Jude’s lizard.
the moons are totally magical, aren’t they…i never
tire of looking at them…
and yes. Spring. if it were to go as “normal”, January
is the one total winter month. February begins time
to ready the raised beds for the summers food growing,
this year, dye plants too. my indigo seeds are over at
the Post Office to pick up as we type.
YES! onward and forward Ho, and here’s to Continuing
Forever!
xo
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Please,continue to sew grass, it looks so great 🙂
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Doris, you are a Dear Soul! Yes, i WILL continue.
Wild Horses couldn’t keep from it……..
xoxo and smiles
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keep me from it
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Ring, Ring, what are you doing? Oh stitching down the hand drawn spirals on my dragon tree cloth.
What are you doing? Stitching down grass. Oh that is a grand thing to be doing…
Hmmm, do you think that maybe my spirals are Celtic grass ?!
Tis Marti of the strange blog comment name of “uie.” I’m too lazy to try to change this so when you see a comment from uie, it’s really Marti.
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I love your grass grace. It brings the land and space you live in to your cloth.
I love grass. Years ago before ornamental grass became popular I didn’t think much about grass and the only grasses I knew were the grass that grew on lawns, in the ravines of Toronto and in farmers’ fields. Then I read Sheri Tepper’s science fiction novel Grass, set on a planet of grasses – many and diverse. It gave me a whole new feeling about grass.
Now beautiful ornamental grasses (wild grasses, of course, where they natively live) are all over. I have a clump in my garden that happily grows larger every year. Beautiful in all seasons.
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I’m in Western MA stealing a moment on this unreliable internet to peek (had to have a look) and seeing this wonderful grass, this tiny detailed stitching of seed grass so large, uniting the rooms on the cloth. Wow it is wow, but who could understand it whose eye and hand had not roamed over that country!?
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i love that, sewing grass! they probably thought you were stitching with grass threaded IN the needle, hah ha…….sitting cross legged in the yard with a big pile of grass in the lap of your apron, hanky tied around your head and stitching with grass, maybe humming a little tune………you’ve made my day. i love scaring people who really don’t understand.
keep on stitching, it’s lookin good.
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The grasses are wonderful!
Inspiring!
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Grace, I agree with Jude your surface is developinbg nicely. I’m always amazed at the transformation of cloth with added stitch.It is definately like watching magic appear. When one is working on their cloth they must remember the change that this finishing stitching brings before they rip out or alter anything. This cloth is becoming quite incredble!! At first I thought “sewing grass” was going to be couching real grass to the cloth funny how we all went automatically somewhere else with that statement. Ha!
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You’ve captured the grasses in stitch, amazingly!
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the phone people might be muggles. cheers to continuing forever!!
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wow!
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hi ;uie, yes. i remember it’s you, Marti, but i kind of
really like ;uie.
and they could…be celtic grass…
i have liked knowing that’s what you’re doing when
i’m doing what i’m doing. nice. companionly.
love,
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Ruby…THANK YOU for mention of this book..i need to
find it.
it’s a huge study to explore, native grass, and how it
lives.
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you
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i think many people around the world have done exactly
as you describe. i like it.
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Jane…Thank you. grasses just DO inspire all kinds
of things just being grasses
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yes…all going to our own picture created by the words.
i always love how that happens.
today, as i stitched the cloth weighed on my lap. it
felt incredibly incredibly good. so much more to secure,
but i am really getting a feel of how it’s transforming
into a multilayered creature
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i love it more and more. i might want to stitch grasses
forever and ever
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Dru, YES! to Continuing Forever…Raise your glass HIGH!
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Hey, Mo……. ~.~
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ring , ring, … well at least your telephone is ringing… and people are thinking of you. and your grasses are beautiful… of course/
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yes, nance. and that thing the lama said:
Everything has a front and a back. the bigger the front, the
bigger the back.
and grasses, well grasses are simply grasses.
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I think you’ve found your “thread”! Grasses speak of wind so very much, don’t they? What a wonderful way to speak of delicacy and movement and wind all in one than to stitch grasses…. I’m swooning imagining a huge, long landscape cloth with nothing but sky blue and windblown grasses! But maybe that’s my nature as a landscape painter….
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then, it is a very excellent nature to have….
so, now i know the cloth to make for you
someday
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Grace that stitched grass is just beautiful…it is really tying everything together, I love that stitching!!! I can see why you want to ‘sew more grass’ it must be deeply satisfying. And as Valieranna says there is movement and it does make you think of wind blowing through the grasses, carrying the seeds to be sewn in distant places. I can imagine the sound of the wind in the grasses.
Happy New Year to you Grace and I look forward to continuing with you in 2012 and following your beautiful cloth.
So much beauty and inspiration out there in the blogging community
Jacky xox
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there IS, so much beauty and inspiration isn’t there.
Happy New Year to YOU, Jacky and here we go. let’s
Honor it all, Us all.
love to you………….
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“and if they were to ask what i hope to do today, which they don’t”
this is just what i’ve been thinking about, after a visit with relatives… wondering why they don’t? and why am i spending time & energy with people who don’t?
how grateful i am for you, and this community, who ask, or already know, and understand.
xoxx
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Grace, I know this comment is a little late but I wanted to respond to “the conversation” you shared above because this happens to me so much. Loved ones just do not understand how fulfulling it can be to have the luxury of working on the cloth. Funny really, I wouldn’t have understood myself in the ago. Looking forward to continuing the journey and I love how this is coming along!
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