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this is my BEST Button.  larger than a silver dollar

 


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even then.  a Goat eye

 


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the two strips….for buttons and button holes,  down the front.  Kantha.  My first.  From Jude.  I'd bought some of her Work and studied it…saw how it was done.

stitched these pieces….one from YOU,  Michelle,  on the private inside of the button hole side.   I liked that they were not visible to anyone else.

 

 


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and so.   Today.   

i never much wore it.  Wanted to "save" it.  not ruin it by day to day use,  by uhhhhh,  Life.  my Life,  how i live it.  But today it all felt different.   What am i saving it FOR?   My life is how it is and has become even more so as it goes on.   If there are tears and stains,  then…so be it.  i'll mend.    And this Cloth…which i'd said was about death i think?  it is…in that all things that Live arise from the Life and then Death of all that comes before.  Nothing that is alive can be alive except for the death before it.

and in these days now,  this thread of thought has great Importance to me.   i think this Cloth gets stitched…kantha'd to the shirt.    A good way to begin the still dark hours of the mornings as they arise.

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19 responses to “part two, the morning shirt and remembering how i was”

  1. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    I have shirts heavily mended. Well worn and loved. I am happy to be finding a way to layer and sew to keep wearing them for the remaining time I have. I am mending sweaters pants ( I wear out the seat from so much reading) because the new things I could buy are not as good as the old mended things.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    stitched down or perhaps it’s another pocket?
    pockets are very handy things on overshirts but I never put anything in the top pocket because they feel uncomfortable on my almost non existent breasts!

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  3. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I, too, am starting to use “special” items now that I’m older. Why did I wait?
    I am petrified of this corona, because 10 years ago I had pneumonia with pleurisy, with no fever. I had pain that I described as stomach pain, but it was my lower lung. Two trips to ER, and even more days until diagnosis, and surgery to remove part of my lung.
    I’m curious about your cloth of death on this piece. Did I miss a previous post about it?
    I think of you. Close by, nearish. Can almost touch.
    XXX

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Lovely Linen-dries well in the sun and you have that sometimes.

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  5. jude Avatar

    funny, i got up around 2 am and stitched a bit on the Wind Robe and it took me back in time and into the future at the same time it made me feel so much in the moment.
    I think, if I learn to knit socks, I may never buy any clothes again.

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  6. Deb G Avatar

    Yes, I am using things too. Not letting them be precious and yet they still are even in use. I think the wool on the sleeve of the robe I am working on came from you…

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    P.S. The photos are showing up as numbers right now but if the numbers are clicked on they show up as photos. Typepad seems to be having issues for us all.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I wonder if Jude knows .. she must know how influential she has been to bringing so many of us together. One treasured connection to another. Like the layers of cloth that all over the world we play and create with. My goodness what an incredible Blessing we share.

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  9. Liz A from Texas Avatar

    this is simply everything … just waiting to be found

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  10. Beth Avatar

    I feel such tenderness towards these cloths (and ourselves too) that are ever works in progress.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    this one is like new

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i need pockets in the bottom half of things…i tend
    to carry a lot in them

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. i think that way too…you are nearish, in
    touching distance. This helps me.
    i mentioned it i think. Not sure when…
    and right now there’s no time to go back and look,
    but what i was thinking, i think, was about
    how death is always a beginning, a seed time
    for the different New

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    there are months of nothing But

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    back in time and into the future, to so much in the
    moment…
    yes. oh, yes
    i will never knit.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    if it did, and i have some vague memory of that
    being possible, if it did, i would be so happy to
    be part of your sleeve

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think she knows

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    waiting to be found. this is a good image

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are friends

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