windthread

 

will stitch leaves, and maybe begin the circle of stones tonight
just wanted to see this much, this far….

 

in keeping with jude's friend, the present form of the Black Swallowtail:
here is a cousin who cheerily ate the leaves ONLY on the grapes, and
ONLY after the fruit of the grape vine was no longer in need of leaves for the season. i have
no idea what s(he) might become next. it didn't matter, really, just
that s(he) was so perfetly grape like and lovely and amazing and
a very excellent partner of the habitat.

 

how interesting. and disconcerting.
tonight, when i am thinking hard things, i sit
on the porch and what do i see?
not nighthawks or bats, but
hawk moths. Hawk Moths.
i had just watered the tomato plants. Not one
Hawk Moth, but several.
the season has been odd, and so…in keeping with that,
not so odd that here, in almost the last of August, they flutter.

but…disconcerting in that this is in keeping with a personal
change
no less
out of season
and the toad, SandRock, jumps.

in the final pages of The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
she talks of the Love Laws
"Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down
who should be loved. And how. And how much."

 

 

susan..here is a closer pic of raven…the fabric is of one of the wrinklie gauzeie india import skirts…very
roughly cut
as for the rest, the ever constant struggle i have with my self about "adding".
something has to change that at some point and i have a little faith that it
will occur, but for now…
i have a couple more hours to sew this eve

 

yesterday, there was a package…said Royal Mail and indeed it is!
this is a complete surprise gift from Karen
Karen Turner ~ stitching life
and i think probably we all looked longingly upon them
when she wrote about making two a while back on her blog…
well….it's BEAUTIFUL, a wonderful indigo blue with stars and
galaxies and a moon bead on top and perfect stitching as
she always does and then, i put it on and
it is the totally perfect place for the little #ll beading needles
that i like to sew the cloths with and i can leave them
threaded with different colors and NOT LOSE THEM by lying them
down inbetween scraps!!!!
Karen!!! it's really so so great and thank you so much for
thinking to send it ~*~ and i hope there are MORE in your shop.
I can already think of 3 people i need one for??????
Thank you!, i am so touched………

 

many fragments on/off on/off
and today…
the raven
and the small figure
feel close to right, maybe

 

this doesn't seem like much of a change for a whole day,
but it is.
aside from a photograph in better light,( as in real light v.s.
flash with interference of hallway light last night )
i did another daring thing.
i set the scissors to a piece of wind that i'd gotten in a fragment
pack from jude months ago. it is the first of either of the two
packs that i will have
cut
and used. always thinking it is too special.
a shift
and here, this wind will be, maybe placed differently, but
am pretty sure, on this cloth.
i worked the rest of the time on the image of the
raven, it's wing…