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Just mid morning.  Multiply this X 3.   

I have gone through all the baskets except for the 3 very small scrap baskets.  I might leave them for a while.  This was enough.   The complexity of the ordering was so much that i can't even have the what it takes to tell you in this moment.  It makes a very odd kind of sense,  hard to describe.

My scrap family.

and in the bedroom,  on the utility shelves is More.  But not in the form of scraps,  rather pieces of whole recycle clothing.  Shirts,  skirts,  etc.  Who knows when i might get to that.  Maybe never.   It's my bedroom,  so…no one needs to know.  

But it was like being hypnotized,  the feeling of picking up each scrap,  looking and feeling and deciding.  A separate reality.  Cloth world.  

And the most interesting thing was that i KNEW them.  I was not surprised by any so small piece.  I remembered them even if i hadn't seen them in a few years…i knew/know them.  

So tomorrow i'll vacuum the shelves and the toy box where the baskets live and maybe even wash those curtains on that side of the ROOM,  hang them out to dry,  put them back and then put back the baskets.  All newly ordered and quietly talking to themselves.  Hmmm.  How Amazing it is.

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18 responses to “family”

  1. Liz Avatar

    I wonder what you all will make of each other …

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  2. yvette Avatar

    so strange that you remember each scrap. i have the same…..this was my brothers pyama, etcetc
    so not strange really

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The rhythm of spring that has us sorting, stacking, cleaning, opening windows, sweeping cobwebs, some call it spring cleaning, I call it spring readiness. Your baskets and stacks of cloth, a fiesta/carnival of color and texture, welcoming this season of life renewing,
    I don’t have a lot of cloth, one or two pieces of white recycled cotton, waiting for dyes, the rest of my stash are cloths that I have naturally dyed. My stash of cloth would maybe fill 1/2 of one of your baskets. They wait in a bottom dresser drawer, fanned out and arranged by color. Each time that I open that drawer, it is like opening a page of a beloved book; the table of contents – quiet joy spilling forth in anticipation of becoming…

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  4. ² Avatar
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    boxes full of material , in fact to match , but when i put it away … a few weeks later i look for them …didn’t i have this or where is it ?
    so i have put them together by collor/ material in paper boxes and give it a clear label write upon what’s in it on the front , that make it easy to me . al the left overs i have give them on the ” kringloop winkel ” trift ?? shop ?

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    And the going keeps going……

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    what a great collection of baskets!

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  7. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    a collector of cloth in what seems like forever, there are times when I look for just the “right” piece to use in a fiber piece, or perhaps,, clothing I am making and i slide down that rabbit hole of memory with nearly each piece of cloth. The memories take me on a star-ship ride back through time and sometimes I am lost for hours. At times I am able to box up and take to the recycle store pieces that do not have a magic pull on me, but oh so much of my life is sewn to those pieces of cloth that it it is not always easy to do that.
    Your baskets are just wonderful containers for cloth and look so wonderful on the shelves, or tables in your home. Cloth stories just waiting to sing their song to you as you stitch.
    Thanks for sharing this special process of returning to what you have gathered.

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  8. deb lacativa Avatar

    I know many of them too. It’s a lot like looking around at my own studio.

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  9. joy in az Avatar

    I feel strange feelings too when sorting cloth…
    it often leads me to overwhelm and sadness..
    difficult memories, old plans that didn’t work out..
    stored inside me like bits of cloth..
    they too need sorted
    hmmm…never saw that connection before

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  10. grace Avatar

    there’s enough ForEver, isn’t there

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  11. grace Avatar

    it surprised me, really, the
    sense of Knowing them

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  12. grace Avatar

    love the image…opening the drawer….anticipation spilling
    forth…

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  13. grace Avatar

    i wonder how long this “order” will stay….
    there is something very beautiful to me
    about disorder

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  14. grace Avatar

    they are sold by our Farmer’s Market in town as a fund
    raiser, most of them, a few from over many years,
    one that an old friend made

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  15. grace Avatar

    in the last year or so i have let myself use pieces
    that are different than my usual….so though i think
    oh…i’ll never use this,,, now i wonder. maybe i
    might…

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  16. grace Avatar

    yes. there’s some of You in each basket, mingling

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  17. grace Avatar

    cloth is very Alive to me, the
    reality of how it tells stories

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