Tag: Stitch Project: Hearts for Charleston

Ripples of peace

~ Liz A ~ 14 Comments

I have been inspired over and over again by the peace-spreading artistry of Fiona Dempster
https://paperponderings.blogspot.com/search/label/Peace?
and Barry Smith

of Maleny, in Queensland Australia.

The Peace Pin Project was begun as a result of their example, as detailed here:

And now I am privileged to be a part of their latest efforts in observance of The International Day of Peace this September 21st.

Last month Barry sent me ten peace leaves, here arrayed on some hand-dyed silks from a workshop I attended in 2015 …

the making of which he wrote about in this post: 
And Fiona sent a trove in June …

including ten letterpress pieces …

which I am now sending out to the stitchers who answered Dee Mallon’s call two years ago to create the Hearts for Charleston quilt
https://deemallon.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/sent-hearts-for-charleston-quilt …

The Hearts for Charleston stitchers are/were:

And if all this sounds a bit complicated, so be it. This paraphrase of Robert Frost’s poem The Silken Tent says it best for me:

… [Peace] strictly held by none is loosely bound

by countless silken ties of love and thought

to everything on earth the compass round … 

Out of order

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Addendum: Link to peace pin arrival here …
https://deemallon.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/imagine-peace/

The latest peace pin is ready to go to Dee Mallon …

because I came across some thimble-flower dyed indigo (above) and a bit of onion-dyed cloth (below) that had the faintest trace of a heart …

which matched up with Dee’s recent post on Pattern and Outrage

What happened was I’ve been organizing (read kid-proofing) in anticipation of Easter visits from some of our favorite little folks (and their parents). As a result, I took a large load of stuff to Goodwill today …

making room for a new cloth organizational method (more on that later).
Anyway, in the course of going through my cloth stash I also came across this asemic practice scrap …

from my Hearts for Charleston contribution …

So, for those of you who came before Dee on the peace pin giveaway, fear not. You are not forgotten, but sometimes cloth calls for one’s attention sooner rather than later.
And for those who are relatively new to the blog, you can learn more about Dee’s Hearts for Charleston project here:
as well as my own contribution to the Hearts project here:

– A rose by any other name

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Or in this case, a Mexican Hat …

also known as thimble flower or prairie coneflower. Which is why Latin names for plants can be helpful.
Patch #148 was stitched on indigo cotton over-dyed with Mexican hat petals …

Last year when I dyed this I was at the very beginning stages of contributing to Dee Mallon’s Hearts for Charleston quilt. With the anniversary of that tragic day coming next month, I find our field of flowers to be a poignant reminder …