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only two of the zip locks were still functional.    It's 100 degrees today…outside.    Inside,   i don't know,  but more.  There turned out to be the EXACT number of unused bags for the transfer.    

 

 


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they sent forward these three pieces to act as representatives.   their choice,  impeccable.   i could look upon this  "installation" 24 hours a day,  everyday for forever and be happy.   Walnut dye,   the moon from Deb Lacativa years ago.  piece of an old shirt

As i reach in to transfer to the new bags….handfulls of scraps;   it's a complete body/mind/spirit absorption…their energy flowing.   I very honestly feel them as Beings…it's not just something i say,  it's how it really IS.   Tonight i moved the bags from the bed to the bench across the Table from me…how it always was before an Emrie sleep over this spring,  when i'd put them in that back room and just left them there.   I don't know what to do.  

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13 responses to “a kind of crazy”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    If you roll them into a tight roll or rolls, they take up way less space, maybe I talked about that once, way back, it is amazing really.

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  2. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    I agree with Jude- I actually fold mine and all of that might go in one or two bags and actually be easier to see when wanting cloth for sewing.

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  3. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I’ve arranged and re-arranged and re-re-arranged cloth so many times … for what it’s worth, I currently have the smallest scraps sorted by color and randomly stuffed in gallon size bags … the middles and larges I fold into long strips, which I then wrap around my hand … maybe not quite as space efficient as rolling, but it does make it easy to stack the folded pieces into like-colors … then I store them in lidded tubs, but I can see how the stacks of folded cloth could also be placed in large bags … it goes without saying the very largest pieces are the easiest, like folding bed linens
    last, but not least, I have a catchall basket for whatever bits I’ve been working on most recently … to be sorted and stored at a later date

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  4. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    Your relationship with cloth is so bright and full of feeling.

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Love catching glimpse’s of your Tina quilt .. takes me back to how excited I was getting it finished and sent. I’m still always amazed at what cutting and sewing fabric pieces together can make. It really is our love of fabrics that brought us all together ..

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  6. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    I bet they are feeling good in their new homes. Sometimes I think we ask a lot of questions of ourselves (I know I do), when the answer could be just for the joy of it or because it is fun to do. I know how you’ve spoken about your enjoyment of reaching into those bags and pulling out the pieces as they come. Perhaps, if there is room for them to ‘go’ – then they can and you can make cloths or just hold, feel, look at them for their sensory joy. Or perhaps then can ‘go’ and if you change your mind later, then okay.
    I’ve been reading my Rilke book at night, so I am reminded of this quote: “Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
    Rainer Maria Rilke”. —-living the questions, without the weight of knowing the answer. This is a good reminder for me.

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  7. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Ooops…PS Those clothes together are an earthy goodness and worthy of long looking!

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes, and i remembered. how i did it in New Mex, in that other life, when i had shelves. Yes…..
    and the smalls in baskets, so many baskets that i have since given to Alyssia

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    sort of. but not quite. Cloth here isn’t orderly…flat., foldable. but there’s something to this

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    deep breath in…OUT…..
    catch all.
    it’s a catch all world here.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thank you for this. Thank You for SEEing this…for
    understanding

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it is, Tina…the love of fabric…isn’t that just something?…the love of fabric????????????????????

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i don’t know…all this, some of this, more and all this and some of this and more

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