Some months back, I read an intriguing article, took a screen shot, and filed it away in memory to use “someday” …
Then it showed up again last week …
followed in short order by Acey’s prompt to listen to George Harrison’s Here comes the sun “until you’re ready to articulate the way your own ice is slowly melting.”
Have I mentioned how much I love Acey’s prompts? Not to mention George Harrison.
Anyway, it was a short leap from prompt to sky disk … and thence to my cloth stash where I found a bronze-y cotton sateen by Tierney Barden and a richly dyed green cotton by Deb Lacativa.
The green was appliquéd to the sateen to form the sky disk, then itself became the frame for the reverse appliquéd sun. Deb’s wild threads were perfect for the details of sun barge, crescent moon, and Pleiades.
Sitting with the Texas sun warming my shoulders, I worked Jude’s split backstitch around the edges and tacked down the disk with a few French knots until it was all too quickly done …
No ice here.
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
No ice here but very very cold. Sun has arrived. 21 degrees up from 14.
I am finding your circles very very interesting. Nothing has awoken as yet in my own mind. but I might make your today circle on my desk top calendar square. Poetic Cloth. A book I am trying to reserve is written on that square already. Poetic Cloth.
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I think you’ll enjoy Poetic Cloth, which got a mention in this post …
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(((Liz))) love how your stitching of this ancient sun moves into the green of the heart chakra
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totally inadvertent on my part, but I’m loving the synchronicity
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Fascinating to watch you see something – get inspired – and create! I don’t know when my own ice will melt, but weather wise it is cloudy and rainy. It poured last night, with wind. The crows are loving it.
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These little 1 3/4″ patches are perfect little canvases that can be done in no time … I’m not sure why it took me five years to get back to them
No crows here, but we do have mockingbirds, which I love to listen to
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Wow, really?! I’d never imagined. I’ve lived around crows most of my live…but now that I think on it, I’m don’t recall them in No. NV! I just never considered this. Mmm…
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I should say they are nearby, just not in our immediate neighborhood …
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Hi LA – it is truely amazing where the prompts to remember and to create come from. I like this sky disk and your patch is such a great little record. Go well. B
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this one is my new favorite … and I’m tempted to make another in a larger format
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No other word for it but wondrous – the green in your sky/sun disk patch. I would wear a garment, cloak, cape, dress, covered in these patches.It speaks to me of the deep forest, of a Druid priestess loving the earth, giving heart filled blessings; arms raised toward the sky…
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Hmmm … just found this second comment in the spam folder …. I’m glad you tried again (successfully), but now I’m wondering what went wonky. Rest assured I check that folder every morning if it ever happens again
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I love this work and the inspiration story behind it!
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how ideas compost
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This patch has ancient vibrations; wondrous dark forest green reminding me of a Druid priestess, raising her hands to the sky, acknowledging the sun and the earth with heart-filled blessings…I would wear a cape, or a dress covered in this patch.
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I can see you now
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The colors are phenomenal! Perfect choices which were waiting for you to pluck at the right time.
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the larger green cloth that yielded this patch has been waiting its turn for a long time
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this is how my cosmos in my mind is. Loving the FLOW of these imagedays….more and
more.
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almost one month in, I think this project will make it through a year … now to add some other projects into the mix
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Oh my gosh! Read the whole article, how fascinating, love how you have reproduced it in cloth
and then the collection together, just wonderful
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I love the idea of the sun floating across the sky in a boat …
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Stuck in my head now…I know the sun is out there behind the rain clouds somewhere.
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Right now I’m sitting outside barefoot, drying my hair in the late afternoon sun … six months from now I’ll be holed up inside with the AC turned on
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knew you’d ace this one …
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Your prompts always get my creative juices flowing
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This is so cool- original and your patch. Thank you for sharing this, I fell down a rabbit hole of reading about the discovery, theft, recovery of the disc last night…fascinating!
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I’ve probably already said this, but the sun barge thing really grabbed me
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Wow – I love the disk; what an amazing record and how mind boggling. I think it is suggesting another one for sure!
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the patina on the original disk is incredible … but then I wonder what it looked like when it was newly made
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