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Spirit Cloth.   3   Big Cloth.   I'd thought the Daughter Cloth.   Let it go at that.  But   this morning went to find the Magic Diaries Cloth.    and looking…there in the low left corner,  the Gate.   A perfect image of the Gate,  back,   in New Mex.   How did i do that?….i have no memory of this,   but here it is.   This Cloth is 6 ft  x  45".   Big.  Big Enough.

 


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it's so faded.  It once was a beauty Full blue.  All those years, either on the Wall in theRoom,  or in the Window…  a ghost of how it began…the color of sand.  But then…how so True.  

 


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some things remain the same,   but carry Through.    to   Here.    Now.   Carry Through.

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  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Looking at this last thing before going to bed .. hoping to see it in my dreams. It is yes a big cloth … a beautiful big cloth. Goodnight Grace .. goodnight Hill.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Good night, Tina
    I will go close the door to the Kidding House, the Curry House, to keep some warmth in
    Will say there that Tina wishes a Good Night.
    Good Night to you, be lov ed Tina

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    I remember when you stitched that gate in preparation for moving!

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  4. Lada Charvatova Avatar
    Lada Charvatova

    Your NM gate once enchanted me.
    Beautifully. Thank you. Lada

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    here’s a link to the gate in this cloth from back in 2016
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2016/09/to-say-some-things.html

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  6. Saskia Avatar
    Saskia

    ha, isn’t it amazing how this manages to evoke the place you once lived in

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    It’s great to have a cloth and watch it age.
    I think it’s a great backdrop for all that is going on.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Lada…thank YOU for your words, thank YOU for
    being here

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    right now it’s a little intense

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am looking at the Other side…maybe that’s where
    the work will take place this time around

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh…love to you MO for this

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  12. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    (((Mo))) thank you for the link … I had forgotten about the incredible doorknob … stitched here … https://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/09/4-3-first-week-of-september.html

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  13. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    the gate … so true to memory, holding it for all of us who come here
    and how colors fade … marking time by showing change … we are stardust, we are golden

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  14. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    A family story held in the folds of this great cloth; every time I see the feather grasses, my heart tugs. To my way of thinking, you could not have chosen a more perfect big cloth for this time, this record of life’s journey from years in New Mexico to this new life, family together, coming to know your land on the Hill. Faded cloth is rich cloth for it holds time and memory and legacy.

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  15. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    saw this last night on my phone when too tired to come up here and look in more detail on my laptop. Waited til I could comment until I saw the big cloth BIG. And your stitches. That’s what I wanted to see on a greater scale.
    I want to see EVERYone’s stitches in order to better visualize an entire tidal wave’s worth of rhythm to them.
    (my Place knows yours from arrival on this cloth. Have always felt it welcomed them on their own energetic frequency – from the NM Place-traces. There now and Here is also There … NOW. everything is everywhere now …)

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  16. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    This cloth! I can almost hear your ‘voice’ as you talk about each added element, each story. And yes, that gate…to go out of or back in through. A passageway. xo

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  17. Kirsten Avatar
    Kirsten

    Faded color says this Big Cloth has lived and has stories stitched in to it and will tell us if we listen closely. I can only imagine what it feels like in person.
    The gate as a passageway as Nancy writes.

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  18. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    That is one big beautiful story cloth!

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am still uhhhh, stricken, by seeing that. The snake
    wood, arroyo wood, is down at B on the Scrub Oak. Need
    to go spend some Time

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there are many different feelings with this, not all
    are gentle, but all are Real

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this is the TRUTH
    everything is everywhere now
    YES. everything.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    all the things that Jude taught are in this Cloth. it’s a kind of Spirit Cloth Sampler

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. faded. life lived and Taken IN. Tomorrow, Friday, i will spend TIME. just sensing it.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Hello, Laura, just north of me. You are out of school now. I see today, for the rest of the school year. How this will play out for you….
    LOVE and LOVE

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  25. Morna Avatar
    Morna

    Beyond beautiful.
    And – dare I say it? – full of Grace.

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  26. Joyce L Avatar
    Joyce L

    This is a really big cloth! I think it has expanded my idea of making a big cloth with Jude. Been a long time since I visited your blog but still love to catch up once in awhile.

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