Making meaning

I’ve been reading Katherine May’s Enchantment and Sharon Blackie’s If Women Rose Rooted and an archeological book on Rock Art and Ritual

All by way of learning more about cup-and-ring marks and other rock art in the British Isles …

while making my own meaning out of the marks I am stitching (meantime trying to unsee the dots as Girl Scout badges 😉) …

I do love making up stories … as I did with Moon Myth

which Don and I, aka NanaPopPop, read to Parker’s Kindergarten class this morning …

As the latest of the weekly Mystery Readers, we sent clues to be read to the students each day so they could try to guess who was coming. I can’t imagine how Parker figured out it was going to be us …

Stepping it up

I can’t stop stitching. Well, I can, but I don’t like to. I’m having so much fun seeing this come together that it’s frustrating to have other stuff like laundry and meals and sleeping to attend to …

And there’s some very happy news to share from daughter Meliss (click for full images) …

Not to mention a celebration for Meg’s birthday (click for full images) …

I love that Meg lit her own candles and started to sing with us … she’s such a great mom.

Done and done

We both finished projects today!

Don’s acrylic take on a photo from our recent New Mexico jaunt …

and my cloth book Moon Myth

Here’s the story of how the cloth book ended up.

The story began in May 2018 when I started to play around with ideas (click the pix to see complete images) …

And fortunately, much of its making was documented in blog links on the new blog and in page form on the old blog.

But as noted recently, I stalled in late 2018 when I tried stitching the plastic impregnated canvas text to the cloth blocks … that was no fun at all.

Fast forward to this past week, when I brought it back out and determined I was going to finish, dammit, come hell or sore fingers.

There were some hiccups along the way, but none of the problems were insurmountable. The most recent involved the too-skinny spine of the book, which I disassembled and then bolstered up by folding and hemming every other page edge …

The disassembling also gave me an opportunity to re-photograph every page with the light box, shown here with a piece of pottery …

But honestly, I still like taking pictures on our soumak rug …

although I promise to do a proper art blog post … eventually.