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Five

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the first lizard and one peeking over the stone

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one on Moth Moon

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the least photogenic.  the cloth that the stone is, shreds with even the most care Full needle and the stitches of the legs disappear into it.  but somehow, that's ok.

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in the future,  there may be many more of this scene…here, a room, but,  more of this figure and Things.  i love it a lot.

so this is today.   Five.  and good timing.  i have put it back up on the wall and will Look.  the rest of the week will pretty much be absorbed by Alz. B.  Everybody else is gone.  One skiing in Idaho and the other running up and down the California coast in a train.   so, she and i are on our own.  but it's a perfect time for a break…to see if more is needed or if we have It.

Thank You Everyone for your patience with this cloth.  Seems like it's been going on forever.  The Boro class is April 28.  I would like very much to feel some sense of  completion by then.  We'll see.

 

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43 responses to “Five”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    gosh they look so real!

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  2. Jennie Avatar
    Jennie

    Grace, the lizards are great – they add action and life and surprises. My favorite is the one partially seen, coming from underneath, checking things out.
    Jennie

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  3. deb Avatar
    deb

    You must spend hours with the real thing..the poses and attitudes are so perfect. Just like real lizards you have to look twice, three times to be sure. perfect.

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  4. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    Grace, you have really captured that shy, dancing quality…pause, quick move, pause…I think they might escape from the cloth…

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I say the more lizards, the merrier. With their movements uniting the various rooms, one feels they’re everywhere, and that’s so life affirming!

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  6. Henrietta (aka ani or zani) Avatar
    Henrietta (aka ani or zani)

    maybe just a peek-a-boo nose or swishing tail would suggest more merriment.

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  7. Jeannie Avatar
    Jeannie

    Oh Grace, the lizards are so wonderful! On a trip along the Colorado River one night there was a huge thunderstorm and flash floods. I got up from my sleeping bag to watch the sky. My eye caught movement on a rock wall and there were dozens of lizards holding on to it. It was as though they were playing in the water as it ran down the face of the rock. Your lizards brought back that memory. Thanks! (I think magic cloths are never done. They keep being transformed with more mending and cloth.)

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  8. CopperCreeker Avatar
    CopperCreeker

    WOW it’s glorious! you have already told so much with your cloth. the stones and lizards seem to have anchored and brought the dream into being.

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  9. Joan Avatar
    Joan

    Grace, even though you’ve been working with Jude, you’ve created a cloth that is uniquely yours! The lizards are wonderful. It’s so cool how you’ve placed them in different positions, different areas–I love the one peeking over the rock. I’m so drawn to your butterfly/chrysalis creature–it is saying something to me! Now I just need to listen. Beautiful, beautiful!

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  10. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Grace, the lizards are just fantastic, you have caught them perfectly, incredibly realistic in their positioning and their little legs, I love them. The whole cloth is just opening up amazingly and, as for finished ……. what is finished! I have just had to turn off the news – man, this world is f—– up! I would much rather live in your cloth rooms and gaze out at your mountains. Hugs.

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  11. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Seems very lizardy that one would be disappearing, sort of…

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  12. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    and isn’t it interesting. when i was trying to make
    them more complicated, ??????
    but these are just a single rectangle…uneven. and
    thread. that’s it. and it worked the best.
    i am still thinking about that.

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  13. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    both you and Joan mentioned this one…i didn’t know
    whether anyone else could see that…so good…maybe
    another or two…peeking, checking things out. they
    sure do that a lot.

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  14. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. spend days/months/years.

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  15. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    you are counting with lizards! and they are dashing & zipping around rocks!
    just amazing.

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  16. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…that quickness…something i just love so much…
    something they NEED so much.

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  17. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    life affirming. THIS is something worth going toward….

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  18. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…i think maybe that will be ok…….

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  19. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Jeannie, i wish i could have been there to see that…
    dozens would have been just so a miracle to me….
    Really Finished, no. i know it won’t ever, but i need
    it to come to a place of Rest. where everything is
    There and secure.
    I really am wanting to make some other things….that
    have arisen from this cloth.

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  20. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Copper…i am the dream, they are the Real. so it’s an
    odd kind of coming into being…i’m glad you like it…

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  21. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Robyn…i have this thing that appears on my screen
    with the email inbox etc…i guess it’s Google? anyway,
    all these little bits of news from all over the planet
    so, tho i don’t do TV, i know. it is so heartbreaking,
    all of it and that’s what makes me feel sometimes that
    i am not doing my fair share as a human being at this
    moment of time on the planet. that my cloth rooms, my
    life here is ….. what’s the word….i can’t think of
    it…well, you can fill in the blank. selfish, self
    absorbed. like that.
    but then, i think that if i can express something about
    loving things so much, with really, so little, that maybe
    that IS something of value. that a lot of what goes on
    “out there” is about the insanity of greed, fear.
    anyway…i really appreciate you saying that. we could
    gaze together. xoxo

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  22. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    i wonder. i kinda like that quality too…but then…
    it’s lumpy. hmmmm. i might fix the lumpy and leave
    the disappearing, sort of quality.
    good idea!, thank you……….

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  23. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    wait till they are all woken up out there, and the
    cloth is hanging on the cloth line. they will see it.
    they see everything. change anything and they notice.

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  24. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    i wonder if they will make friends & join in?

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  25. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    I´m always thinking that I´m not allowed to close my door and let the world outside, so I watch the news regularly. But I realize that I have to close a door inside not to get crazy about all this. so for today I will search some mountains. Gazing at it I will think about Grace, Robyn and all of those strong and creative women here. That is a sort of consolation

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  26. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    Cloth hanging on the line outside, wind and sun weaving and binding into the cloth for the cloth began from pot dipping and wind and sun and offerings of the land. And the cloth awaits the coming of the guardians, the lizards who will come and find a way to climb to the cloth, a scurrying, quick frolic, a dance among the threads and their namesakes around the rocks, a swish up the stitched grasses; giving their own form of benediction to the woman who told their story, the woman who in turn is the keeper of this place, forever in time – this sanctuary for the many…

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  27. ;uie Avatar
    ;uie

    ???? While it is true that I like words, I had no intention of duplicating my comment 4 times!

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  28. Tricia Avatar
    Tricia

    Your lizards are simply delightful… I’m looking forward to the Boro class starting too… my pile of clothing is growing…:)

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  29. Yvonne Avatar
    Yvonne

    I just love how you’ve made the lizard peeking over the stone so the body is suggested – becomes one with the background, while part is in the foreground – a sense of come and go like lizards and all things do.

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  30. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    your lizards are just so incredibly good!!love them, makes me want to stitch lots af small creatures myself! thanks for dropping by.

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  31. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    the liveliness of the quick lines, held down only just, very Zen, love them!

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  32. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    and Your Self, and it IS a comfort when one can think
    of nothing else to do…
    love,

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  33. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Marti…you could write things ten times as far as
    i’m concerned………

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  34. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    well…i don’t have a growing pile, but the two things
    i want to do are hanging there and i look at them
    every day

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  35. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    we look like that sometimes too???????????????
    we must…………
    what would THAt look like………???????

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  36. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but…eeee, it’s harder to stitch
    really small……be prepared……….

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  37. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    only just………yup and that’s what worked best.
    i’m paying attention to that……..

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  38. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Grace, I can’t think of anything nicer than gazing with you at the mountains! As for being self-absorbed, I cannot think of anyone less self-absorbed than you, so you should put that thought back in its box. You are so full of curiosity about the world, the real natural world and your response to it through your stitching but that is not selfishness, that is creativity working through you and the things around you. I love that you respond where you can to what people write, that shows that you think a lot about others. It could be a burden doing that and I am not cticising anyone who isn’t able to do that. Just saying I really appreciate that care you show.

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  39. Yvonne Avatar
    Yvonne

    I meant this to refer to how parts of ourselves go either foreground or background.

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  40. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar
    Drucilla Pettibone

    i really wondered if maybe they were real. and of course, they are.
    i would rather this cloth never ended..

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  41. Marie Avatar
    Marie

    I had to take a double take and zoom in on those lizards…they look so real : )
    This is just a fabulous cloth and love the face and spirit of this beautiful cloth.
    ❤

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  42. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Thank You, Marie…
    am working more on the barely visible tree now…
    it will change things yet again…
    Thank you for coming by!

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  43. ali Avatar
    ali

    by gosh, Grace, I do think you’ve captured the essence of lizards! lizards’ essence!

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