the machine actually calls Gentle  ….  Hand Wash.  The setting was Hand Wash.  Because when it cycled through i had an hour or so more of work to do i hung it on their clothes line which was good because by the time i got back home a Great Wind had appeared. 

Everything stayed.

 

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I need to sit and look.  Listen.  What is here already,  what needs to be,  that wasn't finished.  A moment in Time before Going.

 

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rocks.  a lizard.  The Grass People and their roots

 

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Lizard with Moth and Moon

 

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Lizards and rocks again because that's how it is

 

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fragments of Wild Magic moving through

 

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double click.  A different language written in red thread.

 

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a bird made of lightning over a Goat's eye

 

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how Wind goes under the branch of the tree.  The Cloth is

Cut

and wind goes under

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32 responses to “the Cloth is strong”

  1. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    this is very beautiful, Grace.

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  2. ² Avatar
    ²

    strong material strong cloth made by a strong woman strong legend
    look and stay at looking it go deep high wide
    it takes me by heart it smiles
    thanks for charing

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Memory Quilt….Story Quilt..every photo tells a story. I LOVE IT!
    A treasure…

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  4. jude Avatar

    it’s a Diary Cloth . Even for me.

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  5. cathy Avatar

    it IS strong, but also graceful, like you…

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  6. beth Avatar

    I love that you will continue to work on this from the present which was the future back then. How much you have learned in the in-between years. Did the cloth fade less in the valleys of the kantha or am I just seeing shadows? Might be an interesting thing to play with–stitch as a fade resist.

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  7. grace Avatar

    thank you, Acey. Magic Diaries was an extraordinary
    gift from Jude to so many of Us

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  8. grace Avatar

    and Maria…thank You for sharing your self…

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  9. grace Avatar

    kind of like small rooms, story rooms

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  10. grace Avatar

    it is. more than i knew at the time, it’s now
    becoming what it always was

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  11. grace Avatar

    i’m pretty clumsy

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  12. grace Avatar

    it did, a Little less, but not much. a very strong FADE. Years
    of direct desert SUNlight
    it does work, that stitch resist…can see it in disassembled
    clothing, like around a hemmed cuff or gathered skirt…how
    when undone, the original Brightness has remained, safe.

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  13. debbie.weaver Avatar

    I just love this piece, beautiful.

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  14. Mo Crow Avatar

    a journey(wo)man’s piece

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  15. Dana Avatar

    Thank you for sharing these extraordinary details. This cloth is a reliquary of your place and your experiences in it. It is a holder of time.

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  16. handstories Avatar

    While reading and looking through this…very Very deep breaths in…and slowly out.

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  17. Martine Bos Avatar

    So happy your cloth came out beautifully………….

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  18. glennis Avatar

    a beautiful gentle cloth…

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  19. grace Avatar

    thank you, debbie, it is wonderFULL to be working with
    it again

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  20. grace Avatar

    the journey begins again and i am wide eyed

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  21. grace Avatar

    like You know, the aweness is in the Cloth…it’s gift

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  22. grace Avatar

    i had to look that up reliquary, funny, because so common
    in this State of NM. it is moving out of that holding back into Going

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  23. grace Avatar

    breathing and looking, the first step before going

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  24. Liz Lystra Avatar

    I love this, would love to snuggle under it.

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  25. grace Avatar

    it is truly a STRONG Cloth

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  26. grace Avatar

    Thank You glennis….i have a moon from you that still
    will find it’s place here

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  27. grace Avatar

    it will divide the space in the new Place…Hang from the
    ceiling

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  28. Jeanne Avatar

    Now and Then.
    Over and Under.
    Around and Through.
    And Always Gentle, Strong, and True.
    It’s a beautiful cloth, Grace. I’d sit and look a long spell, too. Let It All wash over me awhile.

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  29. Jeanne Avatar

    Now and Then
    Over and Under
    Around and Through
    Gentle and Strong
    I think you should sit a spell and let her retell her stories to you, tell you what she needs now. This beauty is the kind of cloth that begs that.

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  30. Jeanne Avatar

    Well, foot. I dropped off my little comment around dark thirty this morning, and it didn’t show up till I tried to remember what I’d said and wrote it again. Isn’t that just the way.

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  31. grace Avatar

    yes. you are very right, to go slow….as in
    i am waiting to “hear” about where the Toad is, HOW the
    Toad is.
    I watch the Cloth all day long….
    am Happy that you are watching too….
    and i like both versions of your comment…

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