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this was the first of the Invocation Cloths.    i wanted to find out how it might go if i just used any scraps to create a small Cloth,   How it was,   way back in the beginning of my experience of Spirit Cloth,  understanding that AnyThing was good.    I picked small pieces,  giving no thought to color or design,  just being really free with it all.  It ended up being things that i would have never placed side by side,  together,   it ended up being scraps that were not really appealing to me,  scraps i might never CHOOSE to use.   

  IT ENDED UP being this.

to me,   its the Magician Cloth.   The magician being a figure that appears now and then in all differing form and here,  so Clear to me.    I hold it today.   it is so LIGHT,   almost nothing in weight,   barely there.   I could look at it for hours,  how the incongruent scraps somehow create some kind of odd alchemy….and that combined with its weightlessness………

i love cloth.    that's it.  that's all.   Love.   

 

things are happening here.   Verizon that is my phone and internet service is experiencing something.   Most of the day there was no internet.  All day i was unable to make any call except for emergency.    Same with Alyssia in town so i know it's not just this Hill.   So….if i don't appear,  this would be why.   I guess we just wait.   am glad i was able to get through and post this tonight.

 

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16 responses to “a perfect example”

  1. maria Avatar
    maria

    it will be alright it will become form how you can do it easy AND like it feel good for you in the best vibe

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    ugh … what I always used to say when the “system is down” messages occurred at work, “live by technology, die by technology”
    fortunately, cloth simply is … even in the darkest night, it comforts

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  3. CatherinE Avatar

    So compelling, grace. I have been wanting to do this – just sit down with scraps and a background, and stitch freely. I don’t know why I don’t do it. Fear, probably. Some kind of clinging to preconceived forms… I will though. Inspired by this post.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    As I’ve noted before, when you cannot be here, you ARE because of all that you have given to us. This invocation cloth could not be more perfect as we end this year and get ready to face the New Year. It contains so much and gives us so much as we each feel what is here. For me, the top scrap,with the yellow, soft green and mocha brown color and the ribbed pattern of the cloth speaks to me of planting, of seeds in the ground and this is a thought that I hold close as we enter this third year of the unknown…equally, at the bottom that bit of black that looks like it has ears is cat to me, mysterious, independent but knowing when to connect…

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  5. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Yes, this cloth tells us just to slow down, sit down, and do some hand work. Which I will do a bit later today. I have spent 5 hours over the past two days switching my phone and internet service…it’s exhausting.

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  6. Peggy Mc G Avatar
    Peggy Mc G

    Worse cell service with Verizon i have ever encountered out here. Other campers have commented they called and got the same —system problems… it is great to see earlier cloth works!

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  7. Greta Wells Avatar
    Greta Wells

    “just being really free with it all“ sounds so good, Grace!

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  8. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    I saw the magician right away. Here in Maine COVID is taking over- 20% of the population is new cases. Un vaxed plus vaccinated with no symptom COVID. I got an extra cream for my coffee, extra oatmeal and extra instant coffee. To see me thru. The New Way It Is.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. it will
    be alright

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    trying to find a way in to the brief moments here….i spend
    way too much time
    need to quit that

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    thought about this today…..what about just tearing
    pieces of pics from magazines or something….making
    collages…not for any purpose of art, but to get used
    to odd connections??????

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s just craziness. it took all day, off and on,
    to find internet enough to post a quick post and now
    be here.
    that’s nuts

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s been some days now. i hope.
    i think so much of you, your life

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. it is beyond good.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i was not expecting any particular anything
    and there it was…it was great!

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t know. thank you for your words, Marti

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