a Stone Sew~er
i LOVE it. i LOVE sewing stones. i will become a professional stone and rock sew~er. anyone, all over the world can email me. i will gladly, joyously, spend the rest of my days sewing stones.
oh sigh.
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46 responses to “a New Career!!!!”
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Dear Grace, how wonderful is the peaceful repetition of stitch through small pieces of cloth which when put together make a path, a riverbed, a cairn, or even a small mountain – of stones.
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Hurray!!!! These stone pths can lead you to many places……. your new journey awaits you…. xoxoxo
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
She chortled in her joy.LikeLike
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yes! and i had to stop and go outside and just sit near
my stones and get quiet because YES!, a path, a riverbed,
a cairn, a small mountain YES and i need to slow downLikeLike
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and i am so glad you said cairn.
cairns have held great great meaning to me. all my life.
in so many places, i have built cairns. seen cairns that others have left. they SO honor the earth, our
relationship with it as we travel
thank you! for reminding me. Cairns. yes.LikeLike
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hoo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!….i just am so wired
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yes! a woman stitching stones would chortle. yes she
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i’m sure she did! and i meant to put quotes around all of that- of course, it’s lewis carroll’s jabberwocky words, not mine.
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I just posted 3 photo’s on my blog I think, no I know, you will enjoy! xoxoxo
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I have seen cairns in strange places, all of them deeply mysterious and – this is NOT mysterious, just hilarious – I saw that someone had glued stones together in a little pile and was selling them for use in meditation, hmmm! I would rather have stitched stones or ones that balance on their own, thank you!
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well….i guess if it worked for someone, i worked!
i have no idea anymore. this is such a crazy world.
and i hope i dream of cairns tonight. that would be
so great. i’ll report.LikeLike
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Well, you might just have an idea of my relationsip with stones from my cd ; ) I’m excited about your new career, that’s pretty much how I feel about painting trees and mists!
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Oh yes the cairns! Several years back we went to a beach near here because we’d heard of this man Stuart Finch who spent his days building cairns. Oh the were unbelievable!!! His sense of balance was something else. He also live in No Ca for a time, pretty much homeless, living near the ocean. I got some amazing photos (which sadly disappeared when the whole memory card of about 450 pictures was accidently deleted! – sad day!) SO now I have what I have and they are fading…but I remember, I remember that day. He had everyone thrilled about building their own, kids, adults, everyone. Very cool 🙂
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.21.01/goldies-finch-0112.htmlLikeLike
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And well you should…your work is amazing!
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Yea for Grace who
sat in one place
to stitch her stones
making her home
Filled with glee
she slapped at her knee
Stones can be sewn
If only I’d known!!!
(quick, if lousy rhyme in honor of Dr. Seuss!)LikeLike
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Wow, thanks!
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If only there were more stone sewers, and fewer stone throwers. Sew on!
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Birds at the top, stones at the bottom – your cloth is grounded now. Stones can make you happy 🙂 me too 🙂
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you are absolutely right. happy sewing
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Bliss, you sound so happy sewing rocks and stones.
Jacky xoxLikeLike
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everybody must get stoned… sorry, it’s a dylan thing.
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rock on!
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hi Gracie, your post triggered a fond memory, so I have a post for you over at my place, a cairn of sorts…..
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I have been following your comments on Jude’s blog for ages, and am only now really discovering your blog… what a treat! Reading the last several posts, the theme of cloth and rocks emerges in quite a powerful way… the piece of concrete that weighs about what you weigh, being repurposed, the Stevie Wonder collaborative pendant (which could have been stone, no?), the rocks holding cloth ‘in place’, the stitched stones/new career. I am not offering interpretation here, but I am moved by how these images, dreams, and words are bumping into each other and echoing out into cyberspace.
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thank you so much for this…it ties in with things i’ve been thinking…
maybe someday i can make Stuart a little camp cloth to cover up with…stones of course.LikeLike
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who knows ??????????
but the are deeeeeeply pleasurableLikeLike
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yes…it is similar
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it’s the BEST!!!!!!
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Try it…..you’ll see.
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yes…i Wish
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again, Try it….it’s surprising
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he knew everything, didn’t he.
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YES!!!
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yes!!! it’s a beautiful memory and yes, it IS a cairn.
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Dee…thank you for coming! yes. stuff bumps into
other stuff. rubs shoulders, causing conversation.
i love the word echoing….
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“Everyone needs a rock. I’m sorry for kids who don’t have a rock for a friend…” Byrd Baylor 🙂
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And I will spread the word…for they are such beautiful stones.
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speaking of stoned, I THOUGHT I posted a comment somewhere among your beautiful posts, and cannot find! I am interested in the way all the earthy images are arriving in your dreams, garden, and cloth… and, I LIKE Buddha as a smudge!
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yes, truly out of it! There’s the post three above immediate one. Oh well, there’s no hiding my flakiness, I guess.
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It’s a bit like building dry stone walls I guess; that is truly an art and they last forever, well more or less. There are still dry stone walls in UK and Europe that have been there for centuries.
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Merde, Jude!
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ah grace —your brilliant brilliant career–
how thrilling
how lovely
how FUN
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dry stone walls
just those words.
dry stone walls
i like this. and yes. i think, really, there are
probably dry stone walls everywhere. at least some, that some human created. i think they are quite similar to
cloth making with just small shreds, fragments. just
seeing how things might
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yes…you are right. beautiful images…….
The Wind here today is very similar to the OceanLikeLike
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smudge Buddha…i do too. but…not sure yet. waiting.
glad you found your original comment. they are almost always there, somewhere.LikeLike
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yes. and now, i Look. my most longstanding career…
Looking.LikeLike
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