a Perfect day, really.  How i would wish All days might be.  CLOTH DAY.

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that began with the Annual Native Sunflower Ritual,  here at an odd angle,  but i liked it

 

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a Fiesta of Sorts

 

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but then,  in the midst of stitching,

 

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i went to get this.   This is a Cloth i bought from Jude Hill at the "beginning".  Near the beginning of when i found Spirit Cloth.   It is BEYOND an extraordinary work of art.  At the time,  i was stunned by it.  I still am.

 

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i looked today.  Years have gone by.  Here we are,  Together.  Me,  what i've learned and made from it.  Different.  but Of.

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and i found this.   a few days ago,  i'd wondered what happened to it.   It was in the drawer.   Of all the cloths,  this is one that is a Self Portrait.

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I'll finish it and send it to Grand Daughter for her birthday.  Her Gramz.   I am approaching my 70th birth day.  This is me.  Old.  Finally.  I am Old…soon…not till November,  but that is soon.  So here we Go.  Into Oldness.

 

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and Deja Vu,  exactly one week since THE STORM,  another,  from the East again.  Climate Change showing it's face.  This time not so severe,  more familiar with Great Lightning and Thunder…then rain.  But not the Crazyness of before.  I stood at the door watching this time.  Dogs and cat alert.  I said…ok then.  This is the best we have to offer here.  We can think of nothing better to Do or Be.  Here we are.  

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This years pods from Doris' Snake Tree,  the Locust.  These,  it seems,  my favorite colors.

 

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Close to finished.  Here,  on a backing of commercial cloth that i lucked upon at the Thrift Shop.  Tho commercial,  it is also very grand.  Do I????? 

don't know.

we'll see.

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18 responses to “tender Mercies”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    For me, the commercial cloth works because…
    it pulls together the colors from what’s on it …
    it echoes the color in some places of the snake pods…
    it reminds me in part of evening storm skies and early morning storm aftermath sunrise…

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  2. Liz Avatar

    Oh, the locust pods … what amazing colors!

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  3. grace Avatar

    yes. it is the Intenseness of it.

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  4. grace Avatar

    aren’t they? So just Fine, their brazen ness

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  6. grace Avatar

    neighbors are beginning the 4th of July celebration…fire works. Part of me
    doesn’t like it, but part of me accepts it and is grateful for the RAIN

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    love how your work is moving into an abstraction of the deep spirit that moves through you Grace

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    As I have said before…..you have learnt well from Jude. Yes..finish the self cloth for the granddaughter..it will be a treasure for her to have and to hold. It is beautiful…I very much love the softness of it…please do post pictures of its progress to the finish line.

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  9. grace Avatar

    wondering if i am going too far

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  10. Dana Avatar

    Going too far? Naw.

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  11. grace Avatar

    yes..too far in one way but then not far enough with
    stitch.
    The stitching on Jude’s Cloth is beyond Beyond…

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    only one way to find out and that’s to just keep going!

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  13. Martine Bos Avatar

    Young girl/old girl… 70 in november?
    Lets celebrate our birthdays together!

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes…November…so ok…this is good. it’s your Time too!
    7 is my number. ten times that might be pretty interesting?

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  15. grace Avatar

    yes. all that. and it gives a cloth a kind of “finished” sense
    that just raw cloth, organic cloth doesn’t in it’s own way….but it also changes things. So although it IS beauty FULL, i think i’ll wait till this years walnut vat is active and see what i can get that way. it’s a funny thing…the feeling of things…
    and i know you know this

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  16. grace Avatar

    i will. post it’s progress. She is my greatest Cloth admirer. I know she will hold it well.

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  17. beth Avatar

    I had to revisit this post to look at Jude’s cloth again… I’ve never seen this one before. It’s incredible.

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