being still in a kind of mood, it happened. i took the blanket off the back door (you can see now, in the background, a piece of a bedspread over the door. it's windy. and the dog food bin pushed up against it.) and using the little paper doll figure of Jude's CB2 workshop, i cut it. and stitched it. and it is now a very amazingly excellent wool Robe. i stitched it all together last night. what will happen next….Who Knows?????
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Wow… I LOVE this. If I could sew, I’d make one up for myself, pronto!!
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A fine night’s labor of love. It’s just lovely.
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yes , very yes.
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So stunningly, warmly beautiful, I want to wrap myself in it. Maybe a tiny stitched lizard on the left, near your heart and a little stitched crow on your right shoulder…
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Grace, this is REALLY something special. so transporting in that i can SEE you with this on–not just now, but earlier. before this. way back when. is the border part of the weave of the blanket? and what do you know about the blanket? something really amazing is at work here.
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this just Great! the tale of the Blanket becoming a Robe; it has been snowing here all day now, what a welcome robe for the queen this would be….
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Love how you just did it and how it turned out. I need to finish the robe I started. 🙂
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It’s wonderful, grace! I love the sleeves where faded meets not so faded. And the checkerboard!
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a necessary coat for staying warm whilst making the strong magic you do!
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Absolutely Lovely! And warm!
I’m ready to see what will come next…..e.LikeLike
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Wow, great…Grace, you’ve finished this lovely piece just in time for the Oscars’…Vanity Fair will sure cover your avantgarde fashion.
This does sound ironic, but actually I think, this is the future:
we will no longer ge able to by clothes for few bucks and throw them away when we don’t like them anymore.
No, I really mean this: Grace it’s a wonderful piece!!!
Sweet dreams, evaLikeLike
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wonderful and beautiful and functional, just great. And it looks warm ;o)
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growing as it grows
changing
magic in itself
it’s your tear keeper
smile teaser
it’s GRACE
( not too much lost in translation i hope)
from snowy here to you with loveLikeLike
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had been looking at that blanket for a VERY long time
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yes and very
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you may be very right
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i don’t really know anything about it. again…from
the Thrift Shop. i’ve had it for years and years. and
yes, the border is woven in. it’s an odd feeling thing.
not all wool. but also not NOT wool….
i tell what is wool by how it feels on my skin. and
this i couldn’t have right on my skin…wool.
but…the weave is interesting.
i am wondering if it’s yet another Linsey-Woolsey. i
think it may be.LikeLike
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I’m so proud of you grace!!! You made a coat! I love it… It’s so. … You…. ! Did you use the featherweight or sew by hand. I’m guessing you did it by hand… Am I right? Will you…. Embellish…. It? Those empty squares need dots. Do you remember that I have a coat made out of a pink blanket too? But I didn’t make mine… Karin did. XO
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Saskia..today, Sunday, here
it
S N O W E D
the beautiful New Mexico kind of snow that falls in
big flakes and then by early afternoon, gone…melted
into the earth.
according to the weather thing i watch, today was the
final day for cold. now…it begins. you will be
amazed. by mid summer here, it looks like a jungle.LikeLike
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yes. it was sudden. and the selvage is at the edges of
the sleeves and then the binding along the bottom.
it was the EXACT perfect size for the central rectangle.
Really, nothing more at all needs doing. it is FINE, as
is. but already, well, a little bit of Deb Lacativa
stitched in. we’ll see. any minute now it will be
too warm for it. but it will wait. in the big toy box
for next season. i like that feeling a LOT.LikeLike
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yes. the fade. oh, oh, beloved Fade. this blanket
has done many many things since i’ve had it.LikeLike
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it’s for mornings, when i sort through It All….
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i’m ready too…me too….
what will come……….LikeLike
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oh…Eva…i don’t even have a TV for them.
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yup…those three things. and yes. warm, even….here
by this computer in the far corner of great Drafts…LikeLike
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nothing EVER lost in translation, EVER…
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nance…yes. i DO know your pink blanket coat.
and this..by hand. and just nothing but 3 Rectangles.
3 pieces. and just some stitches. it’s Amazing, really.
even tho i believe every single thing Jude says, it
still AMAZED me. her paper doll measurements were
so completely correct. how can this BE?
but it IS.
oh….the E word. Embellish…don’t know. you know..i
do not love the checkerboard. but if i stitch over it
it will maintain it’s original integrity on the inside…
so…maybe. but again. any minute it will become
HOT. so lots of time to dream it.
and XO to you…LikeLike
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Love it! so heart warming and cosy and just STILL…..
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Deb…i want it to have a hood. how could i DO that?????
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Kaite…it is just so unbelievably EASY.
but now i want it to have a hood.LikeLike
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I’d measure the neckline and then cut two squares with sides half that measurement. So if the neckline is 20 inches, two 10 inch squares. Then I’d sew two sides to form the hood and then the third side, the bottom, would be sewn to the robe. That side would have to be the measurement of the neckline or would need some gathering. Not sure if this would work, but this is what I’d try first. Does this make sense?
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ok. i trust your intuition. tomorrow i work again so
Wednesday.
AND….today, i took it to the house i do because they
have a state of the art washing machine, and washed it
there. ordinarily i go to the laundromat. but since
there are raw edges along the front, i wanted to be
easy on it. it didn’t ravel. and it smelled like wet
wool. it is such an odd fabric/textile. anyway, it
is CLEAN of all the desert that drifts in that back door
where it has stood guard against drafts.
and looking tonight at that raw front edge, i have begun
kantha stitching up the edge…about 2 inches in. horizontal kantha, so if you could SEE it, the rivulets would be flowing down the front. but you can’t really
see it. but you CAN feel it…it’s one of the Braille
things. it FEELS just SO FINE! i am up from the bottom
now into the checkerboard.
How FUNNY this is. how it has Suddenly just taken me over.
and just before the warm weather sets in. i won’t finish it before that…so it will wait till next fall, when i
will need it again. but i am wearing it in this moment as i write this to you and i am just feeling SO GREAT about
it…at how easy it was…how just 3 rectangles, but with
Jude’s little doll plan, it fits so elegantly. Give everywhere, no pull anywhere and sleeves just right and
OH…it is just WONDER full. so, ok. Wednesday, i’ll
piece the hood together. THANK YOU!, LOVELikeLike
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did you look at Roz’s bread recipe????????????????
What do you think??????????LikeLike
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Your welcome and now I really know what I want to work on this weekend. You have me excited to try it myself! I really like how you made this so simple, an elegant kind of simple.
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Oh my gosh, totally trying it this weekend. Only thing I don’t have is chia seeds and I know I can get them at the co-op.
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it’s funny. when the class was on going, i thought…i
don’t really NEED anything like that. and i made instead
my little House Dress from a blouse…the next best thing
to being naked i was thinking at the time. and all along,
when i would watch Jude’s Wind Robe, i saw it as a thing
of Beauty, but also as something that my life here wouldn’t accomodate. stuff here is not beautiful, clothes wise. just practical.
but i kept looking at that blanket over the door.
kept thinking…hmmmm.
and then, the moment i took it down, all dusty and found
the pdf from the class and measured the 3 pieces then sat
stitching those 3 dusty pieces together, back stitch,
and
here we are.
i still have a hoody under it. but i don’t need the
3 layers of hoodies that i have been needing. and it extends down below my knees…NICE!
it is a SURPRISE perfect.
I will look forward to what you do.
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i want to substitute sesame for the chia.
now one more thing to look forward to seeing what you
think….!
life is good.LikeLike
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You are an inspiration! It’s got such suchness to it, which I think points, in part, to the ‘doing things in their own time’ lesson. It wasn’t time to make a robe during the class. And, it isn’t a logical time to make a wool robe NOW in terms of the changing weather. And yet, there it is! Such pleasure creating like that, right? Even sitting here at my computer, on a windy, blustery, rainy day plagued by doubts about many things, my own sense of overwhelm… there is the pleasure in your robe.
And, PS, I have recently discovered chia seeds – been putting them in my morning shakes. Excellent source of fiber! They are pricey, though.LikeLike
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Grace!
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oh….oh JUDE…yes. i did it. I DID IT!
i DID IT!!!!!!!!
it is so UNREAL in it’s elegant self. when things
soften for you i will send you a scrap and you can
tell me what it is. like the textile of it…
but in this meantime, it is this so loving thing.
and stitching the kantha along the raw edges. oh JEEZ.
how it feels, running my finger over it. how it is
WEAVING into it’s edges.
and how the way you told us, the measurements of the
little Doll Us, how this gives the most perfect fit
that has no PULL, but only a love.
i really can’t tell you. it’s been so long that i watched
this blanket. and now…
oh sigh.
i love you, Jude. Big.
and your explaining is your work in this world., yes.
but you SHOW me things that allow me to explain things
to myself.
OH, Love to you. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOOKING AT hER.LikeLike
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nope. it’s Jude.
i am not much for clothing myself. my life is very
labor intensive.
and i thought…robe. hmmm. i wear layers of sweat stuff
in cold weather. and then as close to NOTHING in warm
weather as i can.
but…this time, i am understanding something about
COMFORT.
which is a word i don’t pay a lot of attention to.
COMFORT.
and this blanket robe is
COMFORT.
and comfort is good, when it is Real. and because of
how this is constructed, it is Real Comfort.
i ordered Both Chia and psyllium husks. we’ll see.
if it’s true, about Roz’s bread, it will be worth
it. i could give up a LOT of shopping for a single
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the color of the desert as i imagine
camouflage
protection
there your coat with hoodie as kind of sacred tipi
for the thougts
for the soft spot of a wild woman who walks with goats
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