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patricia asks:  where's she been?

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well…in the Pile of Just Waiting.

i could be content, i think, doing variations upon variations of this cloth forever.   she was one of the first cloths i ever made in the beginning class of Jude's Spritit Cloth.  

and actually has all the elements that are important to me.  tea dye.  drawing.  and looking again today, the use of recycle scrap.  i've come away from that some.   i need to walk backwards.

and this is what waits all the time.  why i talk about Time.  Time being important to me.  SO much i'd like to take the time to do

 

 

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  1. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    now i’m hearing Stevie Wonder and “…isn’t she lovely? isn’t she wonderful?” and it probably will be stucky in my head all the day long–but that’s o.k. it will keep this cloth right before my eyes.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thank YOU for helping her rise to the top of the pile…
    she has kin, waiting to beCome…
    xoxoxoxoxoxoxomore

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    what meant the Most, re-looking at her is the use of the
    re-cycle thrift shop scrap. NEED to go back there….
    that whole shelf wall of the bedroom is full of it

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Awesome cloth Grace…playful and awesome.

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  5. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    oh grace..so really wonderful to beback..to open my laptop and find such a lovely note from you..back from vermont once again..next time we go up i will have these magical across the world connections and not be in major disconnect…when i have been able to have access i have been so …well happy to read your daily pieces..to follow what iffing..to peek into other lives and works by the postings /blogs from the people in this amazing class
    i am in transition..so long maybe it is simply life as it is happening..a bridge..a new road taken…something…but i feel as if we are inching forward..retirement is accomplished..the doctors and seemingly endless appointments are falling in place..at least here..and this new time in our lives begin
    it is beautiful here..the spring weather has made everything crazy with growth and it is deep deep green..and i keep going back and forth i get to repeat seasons..350 miles north is weeks behind us here..no complaints it is amazing to watch the world become vivid with spring twice..such a gift…
    and oh the sky, grace..after 40 years of city /suburban skies the night skies are huge…right now, i have learned jupiter, mercury and venus are the closet they will be together until january 2021..
    i love them , this morning they said..watch these planets and you will see why the greek word planet means wanderer..mercury and venus will climb upward away from the setting sun while jupiter will sink into the sun’s glare..anyway..they fit into a circle of the sky’s dome of less than 5 degrees..it is an event called a planetary trio…
    so between the goats ..who grow ever more charming and individual and the sky..i am what..simply happy/at /peace/in awe…
    in the rest of the world i am scraping, priming..living in a world that seems composed of arranged dominos which have been pushed and are falling..i go to fix a gutter..too damaged.. and so i replace them to discover the porch roof has rotted away..and i have replaced that this week and had the chimney repointed and the walk repointed..i am getting this home..for it is that, not just my house…ready to sell..and there is a dumpster in the driveway and i am recyling old and heavy metal things..and sort of caught up in the flow with the flotsam and jetsom of 40 years in a house..i am measuring and remeasuring to see what i can move, can take..what will fit as we down size..funny because it is such a up and down process..sometimes exhausted is good because i just want to toss everything..and then the next day it is instead what undercuts my decisions..i become nothing but an emotional sponge unable to toss out one more thing..my feeling is that it will balance out..illness has been kind in one sense..we can no longer move so very quickly..the breaks my husband needs are frequent and long..and i am navigating differently…another new balance to learn when to act first in a marriage that has been a pretty fair and equal partnership..and so i am learning to be at peace with this new balance of power…and to appreciate the gift of time…
    my stitching is truly mainly in my mind..i am finishing the last of three promised quilts..the christening quilt with a zillion small pieces..a request …the pieces i mean..is done..the school fundraiser is done and was wildly successful and now one last small commision…which is for a very nice little girl..her family did not get the raffle quilt and wanted one similar but oh the colors she picked are vividly wild and it is quite something to work on..one last deadline and then i am free..you know ?? alldone with love but i will be happy to be in one place , doing work of my choosing..
    i am loving watching you working through changing your spaces..oh no ..not the clock it s too wonderful…and your beautiful work fills my mind..well my spirit more accurately..know that i may be quiet just right now..but i am being graced..truly by your presence in my life..oh i didn’t write that as a play on your name..but it is really true and when i opened my mailbox yesterday and found your note..please know it meant the world to me..more soon xox much cynthia

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  6. lindamorris Avatar
    lindamorris

    hi grace
    oh i am truly madly deeply in love with this one.the sun at the top is so strong so elemental and the lines through ad an almost asian symbology,and then the figure in relation to that is lovely . i like your white cupboards , i like the brightness of them, and the feel of clean for the cheesemaking process, but i am sure there is a way you can ad warmth or inspiration , next to, or on or behind on the backsplash or with curtains ?? it is important to be happy with your work space !

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  7. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    So much flow in these cloths.

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  8. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    add to the end of that sentence – of late.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Cynthia…this Passage of yours…of backandforth
    repeating seasons
    watching planets
    navigating by a new compass
    half in a domino world, half already in the MEADOW,
    actually…reading it, i am so touched, so Educated at
    how we can meet, face on, what we need to.
    i so much look forward to the days when you Arrive there.
    When all that could be done, Was. and you can Just Go
    into your new days.
    THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this time with Us. it is
    extremely Beauty Full.
    and yes…i think often how we are so really new to one
    another, but it is as if we have shared a lifetime already. so good a Sign.
    love….

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thank you Michelle…an other vote for Her…
    LOVE

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    linda…what could possibly be better than to find
    Self madly and deeply in love
    with
    cloth scraps.
    this is a never ending happiness for me.
    the almost asian…yes…and it’s my love of Art Deco
    really…want to go back there some too.
    i like the cupboards too…but just not in My kitchen…
    or do I?
    i’m not giving it time. need to breathe and go sew.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    maybe it would be good to change my name to Flow.

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  13. julie Avatar
    julie

    If you look closely (or maybe step back??) you can see the seeds of all that has followed in your cloths: the lizard (in the narrow woman/goat/lizard cloth), the veillike swirl in the Jellyfish Bride, the strong orb in all the altar cloths. Gee, I feel like I am giving a lecture in an Art History class, but there it is.

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  14. beth Avatar
    beth

    Oh Grace, this one is amazing… I can’t stop looking.

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  15. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    To see this cloth again, and to know that in the not too distant future, I may be fortunate enough to hold this cloth in my hand, touch, smell because I always like to smell cloth, gently feel with my fingers, the different textures – well, there are no words except to say that I am coming to know of origins and of this land and today, I hung up my first New Mexican cloth and unbundled my first New Mexico gatherings and it feels like a homecoming of major proportions…

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yeeeeesss, and maybe just maybe, since you won’t Blog,
    maybe i can take some pics of what you do and post them
    here? maybe?

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  17. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    yes i remember, she soothes me…had very painfull days
    confronted again with huge loss
    that’s why
    oo you know

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yvette…those days, yes. and then, others of
    a softer kind…
    love and love of a soft kind

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  19. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Ok by me if you want to do so; maybe some day, I will shift gears and set up a blog; for now, it suits to be someone who reads and responds to others meaningful words and creative treasures. As you know and maybe a few others who have read my responses, I am new to the world of cloth and while I found a soul connection to dyeing with the gifts of the land, it’s the stitching part that is still such a challenge and comes in fits and starts for me unlike the flow of dyeing…

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Marti…it’s exactly what you do right now, just what it
    is and no more, that is so elegant. the stitching is
    very much your own and need be no more than that.
    and i think blogging about your explorations with
    things at hand and foraged in your close world, your
    gift with that and your Joy in that gift…would be really
    Something to give others.
    and on a less poetic note…you also keep impeccable
    records. so…a little more than a little selfish on
    my part. since you are here now and going to be cruising
    the N Mex hinterlands, this will be an immediate
    boon for lazy me. (eee)

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  21. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Well, there’s a lot of ‘Grace” in them, too!!!

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  22. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I had a discussion with a friend on Saturday about how important time was, about how time is used. It made me realize how much I think about time and about how I value it over things. I love that wisp of blue.

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  23. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    when I lost my horrible office job two years ago (I had worked it for 14 months – just one month longer than necessary to collect a year’s worth of unemployment!), my former-boss sd to me apologetically, “well now at least you’ll have more time”… I wanted to spit nails at him.
    but it is true, having time is an enormous luxury. a gift that unfolds each and every day. even if it means driving old, old cars and wondering how an earth college is going to get paid for! even if it means that sometimes that time gets eaten by others’ needs!
    she looks strong and powerful… I see those wisps of hair as wind-blowable- but also like horns – sturdy bone meant for butting. Having recently viewed a couple of your beautiful dolls, she also looks reminiscent of them… almost ready to pop off the cloth into 3D.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i’m glad for these Seeings…that there is continuity
    in it all…that things that are In Me keep wanting
    expression….
    xoxoxo

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thank you beth….

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you know…when i read the word Time lately….even more
    than before, i translate that to Life.
    how important Life was
    about how Life is used
    it’s Life., isn’t it? Life is made up of
    time….

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    as above to Deb. Time=Life.
    they are one in the same.
    but when you insert the word Life, for time…eeeee

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