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as is and Proof

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there's only this much of this vintage red…actually,  2 more inches that can be used as a 1 or a 2.    But i don't want to cut it.  It's  3  1/2 inches.   so it will remain like this,  as is.    i don't think i'll add  strip 12.   Just this way.   

 


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they startled me in First Sun…so  so Beauty FULL

i really tried to use incongruent pieces,  color and pattern….   just to see what it would be like and …..as it  IS,  as in ..Truth,    they just receive each other,     and it is Always Good.   Deb G's Knowing:   do not match.   Had she'd not said that,   i never would have known how this      IS.   

and how to me it relates directly to….the overlay,  the interplay of  LoveLifeForce.   Illustrates that.   How grief is a kind of love and love can be the embrace of grief while also Being grief.   Embrace like Emrie's hugs…complete   holding to,  no hurry,  holding,   breathing with.   

i went back,  which i rarely do,   and read the last several posts…..just to make sure it's   "honest".  It is.

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11 responses to “as is and Proof”

  1. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I am amazed at how up close our blocks are so different, and yet from a distance so much the same. I think because prints become colors. I have learned (and am still learning) so much from making my log cabin/good enough quilt. Love what you are discovering as you go…

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  2. jude Avatar
    jude

    i never really understood matching, like especially matching furniture, oh ha,

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace this piecing together of all the colorful fabrics is a lot like piecing together memories that have shaped us into who we are and how beautifully are lives have been shaped by the many light and dark days shaping us into the beautiful people we are.😘

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  4. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    What a lovely analogy!

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  5. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Yes Tina, this! Grace – I’ve always been in love with the sun through cloth thing. I look at yours and am reminded of the many Dee has posted…each one spectacular! That yellow with diamonds print is wonderful. And the greenish one below it…I see so many things (faces, little hills, headstones). I’m so glad you decided to make this log cabin quilt, as it brings me so much joy too, along with ALL that you are getting out of it. A win-win, as they say. xo

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…become colors…i love looking at them in the dim
    lamp light at night
    over and over…if it were not for your good enough quilt i would never have had this Experience…i am so so grateful
    that you made it, that you posted about it, that it
    is called Good Enough.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think matching is a complex thing….
    matching to me is what “goes with” and that is so
    individual to the beholder
    i want to make a block that DOES match….see what that
    looks like. I might be surprised

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Tina….i am reading these words several times already
    and will continue
    they are FULL of So Much
    THANK YOU for them, for what they are coming to show me

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am so glad you say this…in a way, it seems like
    so much repeat,
    Does not FEEL that way…but ….

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  10. Saskia van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia van Herwaarden

    i cannot understand why, but there is something very comforting about regular patchwork….

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  11. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    A no-hurry hug is the best.
    xo

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