the rain continues. i like the light by the window on dark days. it becomes, more obviously, a gift. i have been sitting with the magic cloth. stitching. and with the feathers that have gathered, off the wall for the moment, to catch a more natural view of what might become. and she thinks...

amazing. i looked back to last year, this month of August, to see what it looked like outside then. but what i found instead was that this time last year i was working on the cloths for Wendy's kids. and here i am again....... .~. i don't know if this will be "right". there was ...

it is almost june. it is warmer. the air is thick. he builds a table from leftover wood and a slab of old slate. and he talks about building some chairs. that would be nice. mom spends a bit of time with sudoku. to keep her mind from drifting. she says. and i realize that sudoku is a nine ...

this month's whispering has me back on track. i am ready to continue. and so is she. it has been many days. i stopped counting. SEW the student forum is back up.

just finished going around all of it, snipping off loosened threads. NOTHING came loose. nothing frayed into oblivion. just as Jude said somewhere, long ago, the threads loosen to a point and then if anything, merge even more into the single Cloth. it is strong.

taking a break to adjust 2 carburetors

look what has finally, f i n a l l y, happened!!!!!!!!!!! all the stitching , the basic invisible baste, is now complete!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is ONE CLOTH. just want to put it here to convince myself it is really true. i will come back later and write more. this is just such a glorious...

i have been stitching this all week, just to be stitching. there are nine hearts that were left over from something. on top of some woven and pomegranate dyed cloth leftover from something else. and more stitches than i can count. because time needed to be filled without thinking too much. ...

...a holiday is always an excuse to stitch up a little something

...a holiday is always an excuse to stitch up a little something

so, it's been winter long enough. i finally connected the fields with growth. and i think things will begin to grow rather quickly. it has begun to be sort of a time line. a slow one. with a big space in between. i started this in november.... related posts: 1, 2, 3.

I went to the post office- the box was chock-full of wishes for the wishing cloth. Thank you so much, everyone! Some teachers have sent me little looms and cloth scraps with wishes on them made by their schoolchildren in classrooms.. I have started stitching, and experimenting with the plac...