Spirit Cloth

Reminded that Love Takes Time

She's back home. The pennant. You remember yes? Mo's project...along with one of Mo's tiny stars. 

And lo and behold...  

she is going to bloom.  I've been nursing this rescued begonia for a year now.

Wendy has sent me an update for the Magic Feather Cloth... her email with some video clips, and the format did not allow me to edit full screen, but enough for you to see. Her email titled:

SEEING DIFFERENTLY

The beautiful girls are sight challenged.

And Wendy shares...The effort of the girls meeting the Magic Feather cloth, is humbling to witness. Once they move into working with HOME, their sight is through their whole body. The work is deeply personal…. and equally, the Magic Feather Cloth allows the two of them to find each other. Every time they worked, it was their decision how to move and whatever they wanted to do together..or apart. They did not speak with each other.  They had not met before this session. They chose to work with music. They worked in silence.….they worked with the cloth for over two hours.

video link if you see no player

You can read more about this project by clicking the feather in the top menu bar which will take you HERE.

Undoing orientation

The wall, sideways. In November. With more light than normal. After a long chilled rainy night, the sun is out. Almost blinding. I turned the photo. But really, maybe, I will hang everything upside down or sideways.

It's cold but not freezing yet. A glorious crisp in between cold. I am unrolling everything today, a sort of seasonal ceremony. Covering the walls in the unheated part of the house.  Maybe to warm those cold walls with evidence of a heartbeat. Also for new eyes.  Looking at things in the cold is different. Weather. Still thinking about weather.

Then finishing some repairs and arranging for the big chill. There is snow coming. We are leaning in.  And while fixing up the loft for sleeping in the heated room, I found More Cloth. Damn. Undoing more is taking way more time than I figured. 

The only cloth I will sit with this week is Home, the Magic Feather Cloth.  A big journey made up of many small ones. Today I will hang it up in the warm room.  Gather all my thoughts. Without words. Ready it for the biggest Journey. The Giving.

Winged things

 

 

Everything on the cloth I call HOME wants to become a flying thing.... there was a lot of becoming today.  Typepad was down and I stitched and planted onions and stitched,  and well,  a lot got done. Mostly embroidery. A good reminder about computer time.  It was just fine.  Most likely, I will migrate away from Typepad....change things up a bit.

I took this picture with my phone's camera. Not bad really.

Rainy Day Being

The weather has turned. Rain, lots of it and cold coming. Another freeze tonight and a few cold days behind it.   We need the fire today.  The cloth I call HOME is on the table. One last corner to quilt. Can't get at it in the hoop.

More feathers will be added here as well, probably some cut  from their backgrounds to retain the feel of the Sky, Space.

Rain,  And wild Wind.  Makes "Chicken" here a little buggy.  He has recently formed a relationship with the still unfinished Alphabet Soup quilt.