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i finished digging out space for the Way Back Gate to open.  not so great, a second day of digging, but it's done.  Ready.  and this might seem like more procrastination, but no MOVE yet.  Lucky Star, Snow Bunny and Onday were VERY MUCH in heat today….LOUD……agitated how it is.  it lasts about 24 hours at that intensity.  Not the best moment to begin.  so i wait for them.  

and having begun stitching on those shapes that were the Rims….half way through i saw them to be heavy and took them out.  

 

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These are Rims.   closer.  I think so.

And again,  i am thinking about Story Cloth.  to what length do you go for the Story?  

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. KAMFreeman Avatar
    KAMFreeman

    the new Rims…feeling just right…the shift was to my eyes, the story telling itself in the cloth…story comes, unfolds, opens a door to walk through, sit down and hear the bits, hidden until we listen. Story is a living part of the process of creating the cloth for me, and it feels that way when I follow you as you stitch, add, subtract, shift and move…and then the story says, :this is it” and the cloth is finished..Story always arrives when we wait…much love for this piece of story cloth, Grace.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    Kristen…THANK YOU for these words. There is always the
    thing about making a balanced Cloth and then the thing about making Story. Which? Always Story. and how is it possible to tell a story????
    i love that you accept this……see it. Thank You….

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    telling just enough of the story to entice the observer’s leap of imagination to make the journey … if all of the story is revealed it doesn’t go anywhere.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    For me, an inkling of story presents itself as I take cloth out of the cauldrons, unbundle from the earth where it has been buried, or lifted out from the solar dyeing jars. Some of the time story presents itself as I unfold cloth, as I sit with it, sometimes it is strong, immediate, other times comes in the middle. Each cloth tells a specific story unique to the maker but also and this is most important I think, if the “thread” is loose enough, then others can see their own story because we each bring our life stitches to our cloth perceptions…

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  5. Els Avatar
    Els

    Stoty-cloth ?? Well there will always be a story unfolding at your place Grace 😉
    Now, and surely so in the new year to come …. all the best to you !

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    HEY Els…..your Peace Cranes are just so beautiful!!!!

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    have been thinking a bit more about telling the stories and this quote says it better than I can-
    “We are not transparent to ourselves. We have intuitions, suspicions, hunches, vague musings, and strangely mixed emotions, all of which resist simple definition. We have moods, but we don’t really know them. Then, from time to time, we encounter works of art that seem to latch on to something we have felt but never recognized clearly before. Alexander Pope identified a central function of poetry as taking thoughts we experience half-formed and giving them clear expression: “what was often thought, but ne’er so well expressed.” In other words, a fugitive and elusive part of our own thinking, our own experience, is taken up, edited, and returned to us better than it was before, so that we feel, at last, that we know ourselves more clearly.”
    – Alain de Botton
    Art as Therapy
    psychology notes
    via Whiskey River
    http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/we-are-not-transparent-to-ourselves.html

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    and just wanted to say Grace that the way you share your stories here in Windthread each day…in the making of each cloth, the goings on of the goat family, the good dog, the good cat, the old dog, the trees, the light, the holes in the roof and the fences… you touch my soul with those observations and remind of me of the wild young thing I was over 30 years ago who lived out in the bush on my own in an old shed with no running water or electricity, stitching by 12 candlelight…

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    BTW I nearly threw Women Who Run with the Wolves against the wall again 20 years later after reading The Red Shoes bit again … and the regret for Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo & all those other great wild women. Dr Estes writes that perhaps they would have had long healthy whole lives if they had been able to cut off the red shoes of their addictions… oh give me a break! Those women all lived deep and high and wild and felt things way deeper than most of us can ever go and made great art and music and poetry from those experiences & we thank them for their journeys and their tragedies but don’t ever tell me that if only they had taken the middle road they would still be alive today… has Joni Mitchell? I don’t think so! has Keth Richards? definitely not! I didn’t throw the book against the wall this time but am reminded why I never finished it back then and may well not again!

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this is a BIG thought.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love this
    “if the ‘thread’ is loose enough, then others can see
    their own story”
    love this Very Much

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    perfect. this is perfect.
    “we are not transparent to ourselves”

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    (((((Completely PERFECT)))))

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s a life…that way. i too lived in a couple “sheds”
    and then in the Airstream up a mountain and then here
    and there. no electricity, no running water.
    in light of those years, now is the Lap of Luxury, tho
    many would see it as an extreme opposite of that.
    But it’s UP from that bottom line i found. water. HOT
    water even. Rooms. an indoor toilet. shower. gas stove.
    lightbulbs. a telephone.
    and
    AND
    this thing glowing in front of me. Can you imagine those
    days 30 years ago in your shed with a
    Computer????????????????????????????????????????????

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh i love this!!!!!, your Fierceness on behalf of the
    Truly Wild!!!!! o i laughed and laughed at you
    throwing the book twice…
    but you also might take in to consideration that so many
    with those crazy feet are NOT Janis, or Joni or Billi Edith
    Sylvia or Frieda
    but are women much more ordinary, crippled.
    so…i take what i love from the book, skip the parts
    that don’t work for me and and end up with much more to love
    than not.

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  16. ² Avatar
    ²

    i am agree
    i had not sutch(?) a live but understand it completely

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  17. KAMFreeman Avatar
    KAMFreeman

    yes, perfection.
    …and from MoCrow, the reminder that a text full of good, succinct bits of writing that can be beneficial to our journey may well contain thoughts, concepts, words that can serve well to awaken us to what it is we believe. In this we know for sure and that our thoughts and beliefs are as valid as those of the author. I truly appreciated MoCrow’s observation of what was contained in that one part of the text…It is clear that I skimmed when reading and did not have this bit shoot out to my eyes…for I, too, disagree with the author in the words she referenced.

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