PVC. cut with hack saw. i measured well enough. OK. This is just so GOOD. Left side needs to be hemmed. Sleeve at top only pinned, that. But it's going to work and can also serve as the Shop until and if i ever figure out how to post pics there.
a pearl bluegrey Sky today and intermittant SUN. And i am glad for the evacuees. There is good and true cooperation going on with many that would help mitigate the destruction of the Fire. Unusual alliances . But these are unusual times.
Looks perfect!
And i am sooooo glad to hear of cooperation! I have seen reports of elderly being taken in by complete strangers. I hope that continues to be a trend, a full circle back to where family was cared for.
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Grace .. problem solved! Such a clever solution.
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Unusual is the new normal I think.
Great display! Hope you can get them in the shop, but if not, can you do a special post with some close ups of each (assuming you will sell them separately) and how to contact you if someone wants one). All your followers will grab them I think if the post has a heading that indicates each is available….well, you know.
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I just love the cleverness of your solution. It works beautifully.
And yes, the alliances and cooperation, caring and love being shown among all is quite amazing. Everyone is stepping up, not just who you would expect to step up. I’ve been overwhelmed by the kindness that exists.
The differences, which are manufactured by those who have an interest in separation, are forgotten and the common struggle is recognized.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit next to a young man who is a CalFire firefighter who had been on the front lines in Paradise, my home. We had the opportunity to talk for at least a half hour, sharing our stories. It was so healing for me to share with him and him with me.
I’m far enough away from the site of the fire that I am not having that experience daily. That is what I appreciate so much about you, Grace. Your willingness to put it out there and to also have the capacity to be in the present as it changes.
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it is wonderful grace..as are you..gentle day
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grace, it is a deep joy to see your cloth wall; it speaks so strongly of how we keep on going, through whatever presents, we keep on going, held together by threads of caring and our own need to speak story not only in words but in cloth: I want to share an article that I read from your local paper: the Oroville Mercury Register:
https://www.orovillemr.com/2018/11/28/from-scissors-to-sewing-machines-huge-effort-helps-evacuated-quilters-start-over/
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I like that they hang over your head as you sleep. Guardians.
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Such a great article .. thanks for sharing.
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This makes me happy to see. Looking at a distance and in different light is such a vital thing. I use something similar and sometimes even clothes pins and wire clothes hangers.
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MARTI!!!!….THANK YOU FOR SEEING THIS!!!! finding the
perfect info is one of your gifts, but this is so GREAT!
I look, but there’s no address…is it Chico, I wonder?
or Oroville….there is a Meyers St. In Oroville…
I will check it out, just to soak in the Love…
This is how it’s going here. And importantly, the
deep Understanding of the Long Haul.
THANK YOU!!!!
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that works !
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I love how cloth teaches us, holds us, nurtures us, protects us and joins us all together again and again
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So fine-I posted it at my Face Book page.
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it will continue. i am sure of it.
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it is working
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however it goes.
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i thought of that. When i went to the Post Office in Oroville, where many are receiving their mail, the line was OUT, way out. So many there and i watched and listened to people, greet each other and hug and tell small stories, the line was vibrating with the Going of it all.
it’s what is Given now, this Earth, what we have and what we can do. I am on my knees grateful for participating
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oh, so much. Gentle Day. so much. so much.
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it goes FAR, then. This is good
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my head is really on the other end. During the day, when the kids might be here, i fold and pile that way. But this morning, i woke to be looking upon it, looking upon what might be. It was so good
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it’s working. So glad and Happy. Such a simple solution.
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yup
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Oh, HELLO, Jaqui!!!!…it does. All this. over and over.
And is so simple, too, cloth….
Please keep coming
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This story made me cry but did not surprise me. I am a member of the weavers guild in Chico. I am a sewer since age 4, Grandma taught me to crochet at age 5, studied fashion design as a young woman and design with an emphasis in textiles in college as a re-entry student at 50. Collected fabric everywhere I went. And on and on and on ….
When my parents died, cleaning out their home, I found remnants of dresses I had made in high school, grandma’s tea towels and dad’s flannel shirts in their rag bins. I was making a series of family textile pieces based on these finds. All gone.
The day after I came to stay with my friends, without my knowing they put a notice on Next Door Neighbor looking for a sewing machine. Four neighbors showed up at the door with machines for me. I was in tears.
One of my son’s friends, who lives out of country, put the word out online and one of her local friends brought yarn and needles for me to get busy. Another friend in Chico has offered studio time just to sit at a loom.
Of all things gone, this loss brings tears the fastest. But I’m getting there. Last night I thought of how I might use the yarn. One day soon . . . . I know it will save me when I once again have a home and am sitting there alone wondering what has happened. The consistency in my life is fiber and making will pull me out.
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Jude is a weaver. Along the way, she’s taught us to
make very rudimentary box looms. Maybe the yarn is
for that.
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windthread 
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