windthread

the longest in over ten years that i have not worked on a Cloth.   Today,  it was as if i'd gone way back to that beginning.  But there were Differences that were immediate.    There was no concern at all about whether each scrap might accept another…i knew they would.  There was great pleasure in seeing whether one edge would be over another or the other way around.  These have to do with Acey's 30 day Collage.    There was no concern if there was a gap here and there.  That too.   Maybe,  i guess,  it was the absence of Concern.   And the initial   "instruction"  was…Do Not Think.    It was Joy.

Earth pieces stitched  down first.   In the process,   her face kept coming off because of the  cuff of my sweatshirt,  so i stitched the face second.   I wondered if it would work.   It does.  Well enough.  I want to quit drawing faces for now,  at least here,  just rely of form.   Again,   Collage related.     All except the    Skirt    is  stitched in place.   I still feel that something is lost when cloth is stitched in place,  changing from just being free,  lying there,  all together.   how they  "fell".   

and kept my word.   Hauled more buckets of composted manure to the Wall Garden and once down there,  of course,  you do other things,  because you are there and they catch your attention.   

I am working with Acey's Essence…Evolving Sanctuary.   I'd begun using it before she posted about it on SparklingLotusInk on the 9th.   Just because.   When i read her words i understood what had drawn me.    "leading by example in unorthodox ways and/or for deeply personal reasons.   Reading this,  i understood the sense of things here,   on this Hill  this year.   The first year i was here,  i was orienting,   often lost.    The  second,  last year,   just wanting  to Uhhhhh,   be  the Old Nana,  a bystander.    This circle around it's different.  There is a Shift.   The first is that Emrie is older and has become a viable Player of her Self.   But most i think,   it's about realizing and Wanting to  be responsible for  my Place here.   To fully give what i have.   as One of Four.  So…not really about leading,  but taking my Place.   Just as all of us are learning to do.