I don’t even want to write “The Impeachment Trial of …” well, you know who. And the trial truly stopped Remember 2021 in its tracks. Partly because I was glued to the television, but also because I was absolutely baffled about how to portray it.
At first I thought I’d just make five black patches and be done with it, as disappointed as I was by the “verdict.”
But then I read Acey’s heart bridge prompt and slept on it. The next morning I realized there had been, that there are, glimmers of hope. Seven Republican senators who chose truth over self-interest, for instance.
So I went to Tina’s clear colors, looking for glints of sunlight along with darker shades that spoke to the shadows that remain. Then stitched them together with black thread for the worst of what will never be forgotten from the dark day that was January 6th …
I may embellish the patches at a later time, but have left them plain for now, simply adding them in to the past week’s worth of patches …
And then stitching the whole to the larger cloth …
where Melissa’s birthday patch serendipitously ended up below last month’s heart patch …
A good sign, I think.
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
It makes me soo happy that you’re finding uses for my fabrics. I’m smiling ear to ear.
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Your dyed cloth is the epitome of “peace, love and happiness”
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Damn Girl! I love the way you do what you do! What do you say when there is too much to say? Well, you leave space for the light & the dark, and you use shared memory to bind it. This is great Liz. I too was mostly riveted, not to his lawyers so much though. One can only yell at the TV so much! lol Tina’s fabrics are beautiful 🙂
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the results of Tina’s dye magic are the colors of spring and hope
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such a beautiful resolve
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looking forward while looking back
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Hi LA – a gentle way to remember the week. And may the little glints of hope grow. B
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haven’t yet gotten to ROY G BIV, but definitely growing
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I love that you could work with colour this week – I had been imagining blank empty spaces, but these are beautiful. We are fortunate that our TV isn’t doing wall to wall US politics anymore – we can dip in and out of online instead which was almost too much at times. Lovely light-filled steps – a heart bridge indeed.
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Last month’s blank TV screen patch hovers over the beginning of the impeachment trial patches … another tidy bit of synchronicity.
Glad to hear we are no longer monopolizing your airwaves!
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