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my Magic Diaries Cloth.   It was surprisingly small,  folded.  Heavy but small.   it's about 6ft X 3ft something.

incredibly faded.   i'd not remembered it this way.   I dyed this raw silk  or silk noil  in Glennis' Colorhue workshop.  Was a wonderFull   pale payne's  grey/slate blue.   Then,   Ten years on the wall of the Room in New Mexico.  SUN.    At the top, center,  under the arc of Crows is the Cloth Jude sent me from Patchwork Beasts,   the place of Honor around which i made my way.

 


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i hung it out late in the day.  Tomorrow will sit with it.   Feel it.  Feel what Was then and what is now.    What i am proud of tho,  right away,  is this lower left…a Good and True rendition of my Gate there,  my BeautyFULL  New Mexico Gate.   That piece of wood  is down at B Garden in the Scrub Oak that presides.   Have been looking at it recently.   loved seeing it here.  Had not remembered that.   and that Rock…too big to bring,   but i see today,  here in spirit.  Here in cloth.

and i see how much the kantha is so much like the bark of these Oak

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    What I so loved and love about this cloth is the exquisite way you stitched the grasses. You taught me about the grasses in New Mexico when we moved here, the wonderful eyelash grass, blue gramma. In our other home, we had Indian rice grass growing. How I loved to watch it sway in the wind and your stitching on this cloth has such an organic, alive feeling- your grasses now dance in the CA wind as they did in New Mexico.
    When we moved to this place, I took a small clump of the Indian rice grass, bundled it and it now sits in a little green pottery vase on our coffee table. How we recreate or display what we love as a form of acknowledgement of the beauty before us if we take the time to SEE.

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  2. jude Avatar

    Thank you for finding this

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    it is an ongoing wonder how cloth holds memory … I recently rescued The Land as the Crow Flies from a box … having visited one of our former Hill Country neighbors, I’ve been feeling homesick and the cloth gives me a way to walk the trails in my mind
    which is to say I too love the New Mexico gate … the part of the cloth stitched when I was “here” to watch it becoming …
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2016/09/to-say-some-things.html
    and as I looked, the bells beneath the upper beam blurred and became a figure walking in the distance …

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    I remember when you stitched that gateway from your raft in New Mexico in the lead up to your move to The Hill
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2016/09/to-say-some-things.html
    and when you were considering working from the other side last year
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2020/04/my-entry.html

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    A stunning cloth, so much there – “arc of crows” – I just like saying it.

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    That the best one art of quilts .. every stitch holds memories of places and people we love. They are true gifts from the heart. Treasures!!!!

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  7. Faith Avatar

    I am loving looking at this in full size.

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