The sun came out for a minute today. Got out and raked, swept leaves from the curb, fed the turkeys, and ran to Volantes Farm. Also, a friend came over for coffee early and we wrote postcards to voters.
An old heart quilt surfaced last week. There’s a weaving section that wasn’t finished so I took care of that today. This piece was begun during one of Jude’s classes and her recent posts about weaving prompted this effort.
I’m also adding some yellow and blue to brighten it up and outlined that little heart (lower left) in red.
Dee~ I too have weaving on the brain! Love your long and narrow weaving for how unique it is and how somewhat tattered it appears. Time captured.
It’s not perfect for sure. Fabric shredding and narrow space to weave didn’t help.
Dee~ Oh, but I like it just as it is!! So authentic. I think it is beautiful.
PS I saw this movie thumbnail and title jump out at me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1UZPA7HQWw&t=50s
I don’t know that I can stomach it though. haha
Your farm pic is full of season.
Spotted that right off. A mended wound.
Ah. Yes. Looking at it that way, it matters a lot less that it’s not perfect.
I like how you picked that little weave section back up. All those pumpkins!
Nice to have such an obvious place to pick up.
The key to my heart .. it’s fun finding and finishing an old piece. This year Halloween will be different since it’s been some years that we always had lights off to tricker treaters. It was just to unsettling for our old Sweetie to have the little ones coming and going. Hopefully you’ll have lots of beautiful crisp fall weather .. it is a beautiful time of year.
You remind me that we should keep our lights off for the dog’s sake. It shreds his nervous system, having people come to the door. A real evening ruined. Maybe we’ll put a bowl of candy out by the sidewalk. Last year hardly anyone came anyway.
Perfect can at times feel cold, untouchable. I would much rather see and touch something, a little raggedy, that speaks to me of story, of life. None of the cloths that I have ever made would be called perfect. Each and every one of them, however, is rich with story, intention and even, if it doesn’t sound to out there, bits of my soul! My cloth landscape collages, are a sight to behold with their uneven borders, lumpy feel due to no backing. They are just stitched pieces put together haphazardly with uneven stitches but oh the glory of the stories, starting with the use of recycled white cloth and changing the cloth via using the gifts of the land, foraging for dye materials to portray a sense of place..
What moves me are the special pieces in a cloth, that elicit a question, a sense of wonder as in the key in your quilt Dee. Is it the key to your heart, the key to unlocking a mystery, the key to a special knowledge? So many story lines in just a single piece of cloth? That to me, is what is perfect about what we create.
Autumn just speaks to me of so much and I just love the photos of the pumpkins and gourds that you displayed. I am feeling quite lazy these days so I have cleaned out my patio pots, won’t plant anything until spring, but I have filled my special Kokopelli pots by my front door with mini pumpkins, Native American blue and white corn that I grew in our other home and gourds. I’ve even stuck some dried red chili peppers, into the pots. The peppers come from the red chile ristra that is in my kitchen. It was important to include the chiles because after all,, this is the time of harvest and chiles are New Mexico’s main crop..
Your door display sounds so pretty and so LOCAL.
If what we make is imbued with parts of our soul, your work certainly stands out. And the fact that the soul of the land comes in too, well. All the more energy to resonate with.
I hear what you’re saying about craft that is too perfect and I’m in that camp for sure but I also appreciate things that exhibit a kind of precision that only years of experience can deliver.