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pinned on the back of the Diaries Cloth.    I think i wanted to know what it would look like as a centerpiece to a large,  "real" quilt,   one that could be an actual sleeping quilt…like laundered in a machine.   Like my Tina Quilt that over time and use becomes more.  Becomes soft and MORE.     Maybe some day.  it's a whole different Thing.  The Diaries Cloth would not even exist if laundered.   It almost doesn't exist already just from desert sand moving on its surface.  So many of the choices of cloth were already full of life lived.   It remains Out,  hanging on the cloth line,  the Goats move under and through it.   I'll take it down soon and fold it up again,   Put it away in one of the containers of stuff that i will leave during Evacuation.   Knowing it's there.  Knowing i am leaving it.   This is something to think about too.

 

i went back to the archives this morning,  to try again,   see if anything felt different and it  did…but brought so many questions,  so many  ummmm,   unsettled feelings.   Am just letting it be as it is for now.   What i came away with for sure,  is missing the dying.   Down at B,  there's madder root.  Old enough this year.

Marti…thank you.   HUGE thank you for that link

 

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10 responses to “surprise on the other side”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Hearts touching because this morning, I went to your archives, not to find story cloth, but to find me with you: Woke up so early and stepped outside and nearly froze. Dark except for the sensor light in the carport. Looked at the sky and the word that came to me was your name, grace…
    So since I seem to be on a roll with sharing photos of me and a bit more of my life, as in Liz’s recent blog post about joining her in looking back at 2011, there is this from a wonderful, magic time, the time of our weekend Camp Out, May 2014:
    We shared so much those three days- you taking me to your special place, Water Canyon, where I hugged the mother of all rocks, leaving corn kernels in reciprocity for the gatherings that I took from the land/ Eating a fine meal in Magdalena, green Chile stew that to this day is the best I’ve had. How I met some of your neighbors, we went to your dear post office, gathered hay, fed and spent time with the goats, inhaling, exhaling the beauty of your place…how I lived your life for a day, seeing, touching, marveling at the plant people.
    We dyed cloth, I had brought my mordanted recycled white cotton and showed you how I bundle cloth and we bundled and stuck in pots and glass jars using what we found on your land, mimosa, desert willow, iris petals pod, etc. Those bundles when I brought them back to my home and let cure, then did the big reveal, I labeled, The Polvadera Collection, in honor of their origin, and a few pieces were stitched to the big cloth that I call, High Desert Meadow, the cloth that is on one of our bedroom walls where I see it everyday…memories…
    How we talked and talked and talked and never ran out of things to share, how we ate and drank, and laughed and I nested, Tay and Tazmeena close by.
    Now you are in CA, the state where I was born and I am still here in New Mexico. I think of selves and place and years gone by and especially, I think of how the sisterhood we created so long ago, you are and always will be my Dad’s third daughter, how this holds through moves and time, it holds and it all comes down simply to respect and Love, always and this community of strong, loving women that we are a part of, well it also holds for the same reasons…
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2014/05/theres-two-of-us.html#comments
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2014/05/thinking-looking-seeing-trying-to-understand-questions-good.html

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  2. jude Avatar

    madder almost ready here, dyeing less without the wood stove.
    your post has inspired words that will form later

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    Marti and Grace
    and here I am, seven years later looking back at 2014 … how I would join the circle one month later when Jude began Considering Weave … one month into it Grace created Underlying Order, which hung over the fireplace at the Hill Country house and now hangs in my stitching room …
    this circling back has made my heart happy

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  4. maria Avatar
    maria

    i remember these pics , my heart flow over aswell the words
    big hug to all

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  5. Faith Avatar

    That cloth is, as you say, BEAUTY-full!
    And I loved reading the links Marti and Liz shared!

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    so much here, Marti. the Real of things. Just so so much

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    this will be a first time for the root

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    heart flowing over

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