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i don't know what's going on with me and cloth.   It's never been like this before.   There are a lot of Life Things going on.  I say…maybe it's that.   But i don't think so.  it's between me and cloth.  Us.   Something.   I look at this,  that makes no

"sense"

and one of the things i think is….what if that strip of black/white,  the "other"side of it,   is the Only piece of it i have left.  i LOVE that strip of black/white.   Love isn't even a good enough word for how i feel about that strip of cloth.  What if it's the only one left?   It was sent to me.   a gift and i don't remember who or when…maybe Nancy?   or Michelle?   I wish i were a better person about keeping track of those things.  I always mean to,  but then they somehow just get stirred in with all the others  in some burst of making.

Maybe it's that the 13 XLARGE Gigunda bags of fragments are still in that back room.   Maybe it's that.  Maybe i need them out here,  across from me at this Everything Table.   After tomorrow i'll bring them back.  Pile them up there.   again.   see what Happens.   

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  1. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace~ Be easy on self. These are strange times. Cloth not from me, that I can recall. But the black & white toad eggs, maybe that one is from me. Either way, it matters not a lot…they rest with you now, for as long as it takes. Love to you.

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    every so often I think about going through all the cloth … of making some kind of sense of all the bits and pieces of it … and then, maybe trying kawandi … stitching small bits around the edges of a large cloth and then working into the middle … or not …

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  3. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    Sounds like something new is coming. You’re paying close attention, that’s the best thing you can do. I too have bits of cloth I love, some of them I’ve picked up off the ground. Our local library is having a “fabric swap” event (eventually – they keep postponing the date) that I hope to use as motivation to rehome some of my cloth.

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  4. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    This cloth of yours speaks to me of passage of time. Those loved bits of cloth… I find myself always wanting to “save” them, not use them. Which is kind of crazy. Shouldn’t the loved be cherished by use.

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  5. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    Yeah, getting your cloth accessible is a good thing. That’s my problem right now, too. I have to wait until the rains are done to get my shouldn’t-be-a-storage-room cleaned out. I think being surrounded by, SEEING what we have to work with aids and abets our creativity.

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  6. jude Avatar
    jude

    i can never get a handle on the scrap here. I have it sorted by color family and then one basket of I love this. but then stuff is at the bottom of the basket. hidden again.

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  7. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Liz~ Thanks for introducing me to this! I had never heard of kawandi and saw some colorful examples in my search. Looks like some of Dee’s quilts to me.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    these bits are what i have now, what i need

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are pieces of maybe 40 or more years. scraps.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i don’t have an answer to that. Just being able to
    imagine with them ?

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i put the bags back there some weeks ago. It’s kind of
    wonderful having that seat across from me empty and free.
    When they’re there, i have to move them back and forth day and night. But…….they can speak.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i’ve never sorted them. There’s too many and some so small, many so small. Back in N Mex they were in the baskets.

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  13. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I love the idea of a fabric swap … of rehoming cloth … thank you for this

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