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    i put the little scraps that were along with the two packets of cloth that
    i got from
    Deb Lacativa. (One was called Swamp Thing)
    (i like the cloth and i like its name)
    put those scraps in a bowl of water because they
    were all squinched in one of her little crocheted pots…
    then made a little scrap line for them to dry.
    it looked like a party. you know, how you get the
    house all ready for company, everything in place and
    then once the party begins, it's all everywhere?

    maybe today was a kind of birthday party.

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    thrift shop bib overalls!
    and my 2010 self portrait

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    this is the Winter back door. it is the door to the Room where i make cloths.
    has a large window that i love.
    was made, the door, out of a screen door by my daughter and granddaughter and me.
    it does not fit the door casing, so there are many cracks that the wind enters.
    Because i love the door, and because it is only really
    cold
    here, maybe 3 months of the year
    i think of ways to just wait till it's warm again.

    this old horse blanket is one. course wool. (i also stuff
    things in the cracks of the door casing)
    but the blanket. it is too linear for comfort and so
    yesterday when i put it up for this winter, i added
    the Lizard that was gifted to me by Jude in the Beast Class.
    That Lizard has been many different places in the house
    and now is totally and magically perfect on that
    blanket, making everything ok and good.

    Why? i am looking at shapes, colors, relationships.

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    and etc.
    OK. here we are.
    Patty…softening the dark lower left. i think i cannot
    change the bottom of the figure, but i did change the
    rectangular "block"…added and created more of a
    triangular shape?
    StoryCloth~YES, trying things! it is Very Good!
    Greasyming…THANK YOU! AND how GREAT that you
    commented…who would have guessed that from so far away
    you noticed????! i am very happy at this…! I would
    give $50, not 50cents! hmmm. dark pool for the moon….
    Penny~weight to the moon, as above, hmmmmm. but the moon
    is very light…., but then, balance. hmmmm again.
    Jude~which way is the Wind blowing…isn't that a B.Dylan
    song?…the wind here blows All ways at once. that is
    New Mexico, and that is what makes us sometimes crazy
    Chambray. yes. i misquoted Nance. Sorry Nance. eeeeee.
    THANK YOU SO MUCH for the pic!
    Saraz~Dark Moon again…on the diagonal, yes, but….
    you will learn to accept me as a stubborn friend…
    and…Thank You for saying it has been fun. I liked
    enornously your thoughts about deconstructing on your
    blog….Very Much and it carried through today…
    Twhich..the wind, yes, the Wind
    Serena..and Wind again. i don't know.
    Saraz again…i was happy you came back.

    JUDE: "just looking" well, what more could i ever
    ask in this life?

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    ok.
    most noticably, i took away the stars. but left a little stardust. i will need to get better at stars.

    i made Sun beams…which i feel ok about

    but mostly, dealt with the issue of the [quite blue] of the Twhich Aye cloth that nance has told me is
    shot cotton (!) All the time i am working, i am experiencing the almost discomfort of this blue and
    the kind of teal underneath. but I still, somehow, WANT this. i look and look at the colors of every
    thing ~ which are unusual for me, not individually, but in combination….
    i am very resistant to Color Theory and am now an old dog (new tricks,) so i just stare and stare.
    What will make things "ok"?. Why did i choose the odd and almost greenish gauze for wind? i think
    to accomodate the moth? or was it the flower seed area?, which i have changed by stitching black and
    white there?

    so, in defense of OR in response to all this, i kantha'd all of the lower parts with a very pale sage
    green?(which is barely noticable) but which made the darker kantha thread above stand out even more…should i take that out?
    or is it ok because it is Night up there at the top? and then, now,
    what about the moon.

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    not an asteroid, but better….
    a beautiful gifted hapazome on
    silk…just so so completely
    excellent…
    THANK YOU, Kaite! and i STILL
    wish you would offer your artistry
    for Us to work with…..i think
    anyone would gladly pay the shipping
    costs…
    This piece, i could never use in a
    cloth…it is to treasure, but maybe
    small experimental pieces?, that
    you might think are not quite right?
    tiny fragments maybe???????
    but, thank you tho. just just perfect!

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    change

    this off, that on.

    maybe.

    in this moment:
    a moon
    copper stars
    silk carrier rod cacoon bottom right, kimberly baxter packwood
    wind

    i need Cloth Whispering

    and yes, the third layer, blue cloth is
    a gift, some months back, from Twhich Aye

    we will rest for a while.

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    this one is called
    I Love You Jude Hill

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    i have missed the dolls.
    (go back to first post of blog)
    i have missed them.
    but
    here they come again,
    a different way.
    maybe every cloth i ever make will be called
    I Love You Jude Hill

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    WAIT! i should have done this last night, but just mostly
    wanted the pics to be present.
    this is my birth month. and it is a significant birth month
    in my mind.
    so these photos are part of what will probably continue in
    a few different ways over the next days.
    they are a ReView of an extraordinary year, last year.
    this child was born to my granddaughter just before my
    own birthday…he is now a walking talking one year old
    little boy.
    and things just kept coming. things i want to have here,
    where the story of my cloth is kept.