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so i made, for the first time in my life,  French Onion Soup.  i had all the correct ingredients, no substitutions.  this is kind of embarassing, but i have never even HAD French Onion Soup before.  i have always Wanted it.  but if i had a choice on a menu,  i always chose something else.  so the morning was involved with carmelizing onions in a perfect way.   

and as i sat down with my bowl with floating broiled good bread with Gruyere Cheese melted on,  and took the first bite…hmmmm.   it was…..ok.   Ok.  but not heavenly, as i had always imagined it would be.   I googled Julia Child's recipe and she used cognac.  maybe that's it?  so…there was a morning…flown away into just OK.   i have a quart and a half left over.  i'll think of something.

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then, more to the Point,  i stitched.  many invisible bastes and then began the Kantha that will surround.  this is the first time i have done the Kantha first,  before the rest,  and having to remove scraps to accomodate it.  so i have learned.  a little.  and i split back stitched the first of the rings, having learned again, i'll do the rings with this kind of neutral thread first and then add as i go.  Already i am loving this cloth

 

 

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  1. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    It’s the broth… You have to have an excellent broth. Then it is really wonder ful. Don’t give up.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    maybe i’ll try again Next December

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  3. Sandi Avatar
    Sandi

    Grace, loving the gathering at the top of this cloth. Such texture!!!

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I like it with motserella (just realized I don/t remember the spelling and too lazed yo go look in the fridge. Also, I use a thick broth made with beef bones (so seldom have it now)…and red onions + a touch of cayenne for bite.

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  5. dee Avatar
    dee

    loving the cloth before application is a great way to begin. it made me smile to look at your boots a few posts back.

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  6. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    your kantha stitches always make me drool. funny choice of word. maybe inspired by the thinking of french onion soup. and when i read your disappointment, for some reason i thought “stone.” maybe it needed a stone. oh, this may be a strange day.

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  7. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Well I’ve been staring at the top of the cloth, those folds, and I have gone in head first into canyons and cliff dwellings and wonder. Spirit is manifesting itself in these ripples, in these folds, in these deep places and so I find myself “walking” in sacred land here.

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  8. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    Love the folds at the top and the kantha.

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  9. beth Avatar
    beth

    I do so love to watch you work on cloth. Texture may be enough for this one. Can the god-thing really be captured or only sensed?

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    gee Grace, real French Onion Soup, have never eaten either! My mother used to make a dip with one of those French Onion soup sachets from the supermarket (God knows what was in it) mixed with some other gloop to make a French Oinion dip back in the 70’s!
    Love your cloth!!!
    am feeling all strange and lost and a bit bereft thinking about the upcoming changes in Jude’s Mothership so I am over here trying to get my bearings, love you crow sister!

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) tried to post before but the ether ate it… just want to say thank you for being here & I love you crow sister!

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  12. eva schull Avatar
    eva schull

    Wow, I can comment again!
    eva

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  13. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) Crow Sister Extraordinaire!
    aaaarrrrrkkk! aaaaaarrrrrrrkkkkk! Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkkk!
    third time lucky x fingers and hope with all my heart this makes it through the ether (Typepad is being ornery) I am feeling all wild and a bit bereft with the imminent loss of the What-ifing of Jude’s Mothership….
    PS Oh good, this one made it through!

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    o Mo. yes. She is also a master at changing her mind,
    but for some reason, this feels like it’s going to happen.
    I WILL be bereft. Adrift. It’s been years. Constant.
    Even tho what i have been doing might have had nothing to
    do with her Posts, there was always that steady flow
    of Energy that could translate so many ways. The actual
    Cloth Work and the Wonderings.
    This could not come at a worse time for me, either. The
    Cold Months, the months of Wind and Gray scudding skies.
    The months of no growing out side, no gardens.
    So…we may be on our own. hmmmm. Ever since i began
    making Cloth i have not been on my own.
    Well, maybe she’ll change her mind.
    and re-reading the above, how self~centered it is. To
    cling to something that is not serving the Other well.
    But for now, i’m just going to be sad.
    and what was that beautiful tiny book of the 60’s or 70’s?
    Michelle?????? Mo???????? i am just going to be sad and
    Lost like the Stars are…..

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  15. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) the circle as you put it so well over on the forum will wait, we are all holding our wishing stars to our hearts, pressing them to our foreheads… and the very good thing is we have the forum and it’s going to stay… the circle of cloth conjurors that Jude has gathered around her and we have our threads to stitch into the cloths all around the world to say how this feels and find our new ways of be-ing….

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  16. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    Take your leftover soup and add more vegetables and meat if you want and cook it until it’s really thick – and season it strongly. Then put it in an oven-proof bowl with all that stale bread and top it with some of that cheese and bake it until the cheese is all bubbly and brown and the chunks of bread that are sticking up are brown…not a soup but really filling and warming…

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    of the top of the top?…the harem cloth? or the
    kantha….? the harem cloth just gets like that of it’s
    own accord on the edge….i love it too, so much…i wish
    i knew how to make it happen but i don’t. and then,
    the kantha…oh…yes. deep love for kantha. it fills
    me to first Do it and then to See it…
    thank you for liking it…xoxo

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    you are right. it’s the broth. and i love phonetic
    spelling a LOT.
    and the touch of cayenne…EEEEEEE, yes!

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    those boots are just the Best. Thrift Shop. i wish tho
    they were a half size bigger…one more pair of socks
    would be good

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    it WAS a strange day, wasn’t it. Stone Soup. of course.
    i think i might put one in the pot

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s like that, isn’t it. as i said above, i wish i
    knew how to Cause that. but i don’t.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. the combination….

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    you ask the best questions. what do YOU think?
    i think it’s good to periodically Try, but really…there’s
    no capture. and i love the word, captured
    and sensed…i don’t even know that. there is just some
    kind of sure something that there is. there IS an
    Intelligence, a Consciousness that i can never never
    know or even approach.

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    those creepy “sachets” (you are funny) from the supermarket…well, creepy, but GOOD….
    i have one on the shelf as we speak. i forget why i
    bought it….????
    a day has passed. We’ll All be OK., yes?

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    and so much back to you. we Hold.

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    Eva…it’s been this long?????????????
    i wonder what it WAS???????????????????????
    but whatever, i am so glad you can be here…xoxo

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    and i think she will rest and return

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  28. grace Avatar
    grace

    this is IT. yup. and i think part is that i really don’t
    like wine in food. i like it as wine. in a glass. but
    not as an ingredient in food. oh well…i am not french
    i guess. and i’ll do this. and there are all kinds of
    soups i love. maybe i’ll just stick with them. but
    it’s good to find out.

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  29. judy martin Avatar
    judy martin

    I too am loving this cloth.

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh Hey, Judy…i can see that you might like it….
    thank you for saying so…xo

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