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ali
Northern New England
a blog about handmade fiber crafts and arts, especially traditional and contemporary fiber arts; "monkey hands," describes my hands and work, which are in many ways like monkey mind: "unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_monkey).
Interests: Traditional and Contemporary Fiber Arts,Teaching, Social Justice, Travel
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quiet wait, yes, and love back to you, dear grace. much love
Commented yesterday on 81 an Away Day at windthread
81 an Away Day
but...in this space, before i set out. About that huge dead Russian Olive out back. people say they don't understand why i don't cut it down. it's been dead for maybe i don't know, maybe 8 years? for a while, new shoots came up from the bottom but the Goats took care of that. but i was sitt...
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Commented yesterday on 81 an Away Day at windthread
81 an Away Day
but...in this space, before i set out. About that huge dead Russian Olive out back. people say they don't understand why i don't cut it down. it's been dead for maybe i don't know, maybe 8 years? for a while, new shoots came up from the bottom but the Goats took care of that. but i was sitt...
Dawn
Posted 2 days ago at monkey hands
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Mud
Posted Apr 27, 2013 at monkey hands
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Thanks, Etty! They are sure to bring hope as well as warmth.
Commented Mar 7, 2013 on Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight! at monkey hands
Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight!
Quilts one, two and three were delivered long ago. Quilts four and five are on their way! Quilt six is back from Quilter's Pantry and ready for binding, and quilt seven is assembled and on its way to talented, generous Phyllis for longarm quilting (contact info link at end of post and in side ...
Your work is lovely, and the miracle, I think, is in the new connections and communities formed in the context of all this generous giving. (And now I will correct the spelling of your name--sorry about that!)
Commented Mar 7, 2013 on Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight! at monkey hands
Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight!
Quilts one, two and three were delivered long ago. Quilts four and five are on their way! Quilt six is back from Quilter's Pantry and ready for binding, and quilt seven is assembled and on its way to talented, generous Phyllis for longarm quilting (contact info link at end of post and in side ...
It's been a labor, but of caring and love from around the globe.
Commented Mar 7, 2013 on Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight! at monkey hands
Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight!
Quilts one, two and three were delivered long ago. Quilts four and five are on their way! Quilt six is back from Quilter's Pantry and ready for binding, and quilt seven is assembled and on its way to talented, generous Phyllis for longarm quilting (contact info link at end of post and in side ...
I am transfixed--it seems to embody depth of feeling, of spirit...
Commented Mar 3, 2013 on Ode to place at Spirit Cloth
Ode to place
An earth valentine ...with the needle still in it. As I stand back this morning, and look at this as a composition, I see it differently. I feel more clearly how place is simply dividing space. Measuring your relationship to it. I will be home in a couple of days. Maybe it will be like...
this is so creatively cool--what a project!
Commented Mar 3, 2013 on february at handstories
february
Going along, wishing for a Leap Day. There is a mathmatical logical explanation, I know, but I find it fascinating that February is only the outer two-ish rings.
oh Grace, I have been off-line for quite a while, but I'm back and eager to catch up now. I love your little wonderbird
Commented Mar 3, 2013 on "Living is wierd....." Saskia Van Herwaarden at windthread
"Living is wierd....." Saskia Van Herwaarden
it's been coming on for quite a while. but Saskia's comment on yesterday's post somehow set it in motion, gave it enough form to begin. I am going to devote this year to Science. Big Science, like Laurie Anderson knows. DEVOTE this year...these up and coming 362 give or take days (its alrea...
Sandy Relief Quilts: Finish Line in Sight!
Posted Mar 3, 2013 at monkey hands
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Seeing Hearts
Posted Feb 14, 2013 at monkey hands
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Everywoman loved herself away, fading to opaque, until she understood that for all her loving, one person had not been loved, or not nearly enough; she vowed to love more.
Commented Feb 14, 2013 on I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in... at Spirit Cloth
I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in...
I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in 30 words or less. The snow passed by, the sun is out, and there is Dancing in the streets. (And a little sale in the shop for those who couldn't decide between 101 and Whispering Hearts.)
read 30 as 50
Commented Feb 14, 2013 on I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in... at Spirit Cloth
I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in...
I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in 30 words or less. The snow passed by, the sun is out, and there is Dancing in the streets. (And a little sale in the shop for those who couldn't decide between 101 and Whispering Hearts.)
Everywoman loved the world, tending siblings, friends, lovers, children, community… She loved herself away, fading into opaqueness, becoming invisible to others, until finally she understood that for all her loving, there was still one person she had not loved, or not nearly enough, and she vowed to love more.
Commented Feb 14, 2013 on I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in... at Spirit Cloth
I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in...
I'm giving this one away. Write me a love story in 30 words or less. The snow passed by, the sun is out, and there is Dancing in the streets. (And a little sale in the shop for those who couldn't decide between 101 and Whispering Hearts.)
High tide Saturday morning, I think, and a new moon, all coming along with the storm, fierce winds, from you to me and all around us
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on Again at Spirit Cloth
Again
A winter storm watch they say. Maybe I will continue with this eye of the storm cloth. A place to hide, anticipate and record with thread and needle. This one has been through many a storm. A tran-seasonal storm cloth. It is all one storm anyway. Life is just weathering it. ...
that branch is a beauty all right! your rich dyed colors are luscious -- I eagerly await the unforeseen...
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on looking long enough at windthread
looking long enough
this has been on the wall for years. since Jude's Cloth 2 Cloth. i've looked long enough. it's going to be taken apart. how much? i don't know. what will happen next? i don't know. see the little box stitched there? i'll miss that. but..... ~ went out to feed Goats and my gaze was ca...
everything is a story in some way, I think
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on wings from a broken heart at monkey hands
wings from a broken heart
I just noticed, while playing with scraps and shapes, that a broken heart can become wings to fly some kantha stitching for ground under their feet, and to help hold the cloth together both with a nod to Jude Hill at Spirit Cloth
what surprises me is what comes through my hands and out of my needle when I get out of the way
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on wings from a broken heart at monkey hands
wings from a broken heart
I just noticed, while playing with scraps and shapes, that a broken heart can become wings to fly some kantha stitching for ground under their feet, and to help hold the cloth together both with a nod to Jude Hill at Spirit Cloth
it is, yes
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on wings from a broken heart at monkey hands
wings from a broken heart
I just noticed, while playing with scraps and shapes, that a broken heart can become wings to fly some kantha stitching for ground under their feet, and to help hold the cloth together both with a nod to Jude Hill at Spirit Cloth
indeed
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on wings from a broken heart at monkey hands
wings from a broken heart
I just noticed, while playing with scraps and shapes, that a broken heart can become wings to fly some kantha stitching for ground under their feet, and to help hold the cloth together both with a nod to Jude Hill at Spirit Cloth
ha ha--mine have white spikey hairs amongst the brown, and thinning, oh yes. I like how you write the landscape is in the eye, with emphasis on in--as if the eye sees and reflects all that has been, all that is
Commented Feb 7, 2013 on what iffffff at windthread
what iffffff
wings from a broken heart
Posted Feb 6, 2013 at monkey hands
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black threads, those chairs, those wonderful chairs! your dreams, musings, awakenings--be well, dharma bum of the unforeseen! a book I should like to read if ever you should write it. to embrace the unknown, unseen--that is the essence of it all, maybe yes? this wonderful, inspired post made my heart race (who do you think you are), then sing. I'm smiling, through a tear or too. beautiful Grace
Commented Feb 4, 2013 on back to the Unforseen. But, this time Different at windthread
back to the Unforseen. But, this time Different
it's been some days. since th e 26th of January and really before that i have been thinking so much about how i use that expression "barring the unforseen, ". And i'd been thinking a lot about it because it seemed that the scale was weighing heavy on the side of the Unforseen recently. more...
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Posted Feb 3, 2013 at monkey hands
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