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the days of Kantha,  then days of the black and white thread beads.   Anticipating.  What might it look like??????? 

 

 

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startling at first.  

i'd gotten the 3 baskets of Very Small scraps out,  poured them on to the little couch bed and just fingered through,  having nothing really in mind,  other than that Felt Sense,  which is just Feeling.   Just a Sense.   Pinned some.  Ones seen here and then later, more.   I had to go off,  down to the Lakeside Market for ice and when i got back,  came in and looked to the left,  i was startled again.

But this is how it is for me.   How it always has been…since my childhood in the woods down by the creek.  How  Woods and Forests and Deserts ARE….so many Energy Spirits moving,  flickering,  flitting about,  only visible to that inner FeltSense,  but in that way,  so visible and very real.

they will be stitched down with Deb Lacativa's magic threads…maybe some with Jude Hill's integrated applique.  

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12 responses to “the day i have imagined”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) I love how you work with the magic of the spirits of place!

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    YES! I have an envelope–which I don’t have to send now–full of tiny, tiny colored bits. For you. I felt you needed them.

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  3. Michelle Slater Avatar

    The bits are swirling and whirling as though a circular wind is the music they’re dancing to.

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    Deb Lacativa’s magic threads … I don’t know how I ever stitched without them. How wonderful it will be to see them in this new cloth, in this new place …

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This cloth pulses, it breathes and it comes together – that felt sense of cloth, that language of thread and spirit and story…the Hill holds so many stories and you will find them and tell them in words, in scraps, in thread, in dyed cloth and we will come to know how it is here, in this land of different winds, of many creatures, of tall pines and we will be enriched just as we were when the stories originated from the deserts of New Mexico.

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  6. Els Avatar

    I love to see her looking at the force (of nature)
    And snippets like extra free spirits …

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love the beingness of them…how they call attention
    to stop and look…to listen. To Wonder, to know
    a Place on their plane…it’s such a gift

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    your intuition…, yes. and just to say,
    tiny tiny colored bits are always Welcome,…tiny tiny

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    Wind is picking up from the slow honey like Summer

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    her threads are pure Joy

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i look. listen. Ask.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    thank you, Els. I hope to more and more let Cloth talk this
    story…
    Love

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