So much-ness … dyeing with windfall lichen gathered with our Austin grandkids …
playing with miniature bookmaking (and no, this is NOT the way to do it, but it photographed beautifully) …
this is more like it …
Inspired by Annick, I played with letters, names …
wondering how they might find their way onto cloth.
Meanwhile, the yard is slowly becoming, so different from the Hill Country, but yet …
echoes of that time continue.
And of course, there is stitching …
and learning, how linen and flannel may not nestle as well as one might hope …
but well enough …
And last is best, as stitching down this tiny bit of cloth …
the naming of the larger bed cloth came to me …
my heart’s compass.
Don’s art is a lovely addition to your yard. Don’t forget there’s rusty stuff out here if he needs more. Your work is Beautiful as always.
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Thanks Connie … Don is very much into acrylic painting these days … I’ll have to see what he’s ready to show here
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Your name play reminds me of when I was little and my Godmother and I made up a secret code language where each ABC letter was represented by a symbol of some sort. We then wrote each other letters that we’d have to de-code 🙂
I like the name you chose, it fits you and your cloth well.
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Interesting to note, when I was first gathering cloth together I had thought to name it “pieces of me” … but that seemed a bit scattered, which would be accurate, but I was waiting for something to occur to me that was/is a bit more aspirational
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love. soft color given by lichen, compass they somehow go so well together
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Yellow and rose … rust and coral … tan and orange … I love the warmth in this part of the spectrum … with water and sky running through it all
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what are your plans for the garden?
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Don planted a raised bed vegetable garden at our daughter’s house … potatoes, peppers, herbs and tomatoes. Meanwhile, we’re keeping track of the sun in our new yard, just planting herbs in pots for now.
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Heart’s Compass, how beautiful- in thought and cloth. I love the movement in your stitched tiny bit & the centering of the compass rose in the next photo.
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Hazel – your Story blanket has been my inspiration … especially knowing that flannel served a role in its making … likewise, your just going stitches … so I let myself trust that the compass lines would be true without drawing anything on the cloth … the flannel and four pins held the cloth as I stitched and it came out better than I ever dared hope
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