windthread

 

drying on the house fence

 

i think making this futon cover is
ecstasy

 

grasshoppers grow by sheding their exoskeletan

tonight, watering, this
stands out
someone changed
grew
and i squat, staring, wondering what that
feels
like?

also, thinking on the porch steps, to past years when So Many grasshoppers ate pretty much everything…
this year, that was so odd already, and there are very few grasshoppers.
but this one grew, fulfilling it's destiny

 

it's taking a while. and could happen no other way than it is, by doing, as i go,

but this morning i am so taken by this piece of denim where it was gathered to the bodice. it looks like
the rains look in Monsoon storms coming at this place in a literal sheet of water with lightning strikes
announcing the arrival…so
i couldn't let this disappear into a seam but had to stitch it to the top.
and here is the absolute wonder of what i am just now beginning to know
about what i have learned so far from Spirit Cloth; jude, yes, but actually Jude/her Cloth…….
that i can let the cloth tell me how to go forward and with just those 3 stitches…
invisible baste
split backstitch
kantha
i can create a world i never dreamed.

 

so close to bindweed here

Velma just posted anonymously that blogger does not let her comment here
anymore.
?????????????????????
i have made NO changes at all.
Does anyone know what i can do?????
or what this is???????
thanks

 

had to begin at least a little. other things needing to be finished, but i couldn't wait. the wheat colored
square is one of 6 linen placemats that i also got. one or more will be incorporated.
i have needed something for this futon couch for a long time. it's the dogs'. they are neurotic about it.
in warm weather i put a sheet over the cushion, in cold, a wool blanket. i almost never sit there because
the moment i do, they are all there, thrilled and climbing all over me and each other. there are four of
them.

i want to thank You All for hanging in there with me as i worked my way through the Raven cloth. i really
appreciate each comment and thought about what was said as i worked. i think i reached a critical point
in my learning curve in being able to express something very close to my Heart, that is actually REAL
here, but also to let it go just enough so it could also represent other things for other people.

so, again…thank you. it is such a good feeling to see your comments appear. and also come to know each
of you more and more by the exchange.

much love and appreciation to you All…me

 

our thrift shop has 10cent Tuesdays. all clothing 10cents. Today, a fluke of luck, not only were there these
denim jumpers that are my "uniform", but 10cent Tuesday had been extended to be 10cent Wednesday!!! 6 jumpers,
the one in far left of photo an overall skirt even…that i'd mentioned on jude's Spirit Cloth the other day!
6 perfect shape (perfect for me, being worn, soft) jumpers, 60cents.
how good does it get.

 

 

and here we have it.

thank you all for all the thoughts and responses to this cloth. maybe what was most useful to me was the
variety in what everyone saw…i think this is good. it means to me that the cloth can tell more than
one story.

it began with no story at all. just a piece of cotton that i had dyed with the Mexican Elderberry leaves.
the urge to weave the top and bottom, leaving the center one solid piece. at first there were more woven
strips on the bottom, but then it was turned over with more at the top, more of the sky where the first
image was placed, the Wind that i had gotten from Jude. and then the Sun and Moon both with wisps of
Glennis' silk gauze, that with the Moon respresented the storms that i love here, great turbulent energies
that Wind brings. often crows and sometimes the single Raven will ride those currents swooping low and
abruptly rising, sometimes effortlessly being carried sideways, wings outspread. a single star. beneath
all this that belongs to Forever with the mountain in the distance is the figure who has learned that
she needs very little aside from these. plant people who are for me respresented here by the native
grasses and trees and a circle of stones that she has placed to mark the covenant she has made with this
place. just this is enough.

 

 

cloths begin telling stories that you don't even guess might be a story? What If, they are ways for things
to talk between one another? Things being
energies
either that have already occurred…as in needing resolution
or
energies
that are in some Realm of Possibility…?

this cloth, i thought, was about Place. about how Place feels. whether Place means a specific place on
the planet, or
one's Place in the life of humankind.