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Mo Crow
Sydney, Australia
illustrating the lyrics of Old Man Crow one song at a time
Interests: illustration, bookbinding, music, crows, cats, looking after our beautiful planet for the seventh generations
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(((Jude))) Yikes that would be very daunting!
Commented yesterday on Sometimes at Spirit Cloth
Sometimes
Sometimes you think you are just over your head. But then, when you stand back, put it in perspective, you realize it is just a frame of mind. Feel Free went wacky again. Yesterday, later in the day. A software update wiped out all my audio fixes and put the cute little audio player back but in ...
(((Grace)))
Commented yesterday on Take. for safe Keeping. Keeping and Regret at windthread
Take. for safe Keeping. Keeping and Regret
there were two baskets of cloth on the bench outside. They got rained on. and when i looked, these two pieces were so stunningly BeautyFull...as if i'd never seen them before. i said i was finished with the Evacuation a couple days ago. Seems it is not true. The Rain spoke of it. ...
& raining steadily over here on the other side of the wide blue
Commented 2 days ago on Sky Water at windthread
Sky Water
it RAINED. RAINED. Rain It was forcast for 7 am. and at 6:58 it began. Rain. I could say that word a hundred times. Rain. With the first drops, Its scent rose and filled the air. Rain. I didn't close the door and it Rained IN and i put a towel on the floor. It hasn't rai...
(((Hazel))) congratulations!
Commented 3 days ago on All Stitched Up at handstories
All Stitched Up
This weekend was the opening reception for the "All Stitched Up" Book Arts Exhibition. I'm very happy to have my "Rhythm" booklet included in this beautiful gathering of artists books "celebrating the work of book artists’ where stitching has become an integral part of the visual d...
love how your circling the squares adds a 5th dimension
Commented 4 days ago on In Time at Spirit Cloth
In Time
She is becoming... a universe.
I once asked the Czech glass artist Dana Zamecnikova where she found her inspiration & she replied,
"Where else can we put all the fears, joys, sadness, frustrations & wonders but in the art?"
Commented 5 days ago on moody blues at handstories
moody blues
It's interesting that the moods of both this piece and myself completely switched places by the time it was finished. I suppose it has very little to do with the cloth and thread. Rather, it was what was happening when time wasn't being spent in stitch. Maybe I should never put the ne...
such a beautiful moon!
Commented 5 days ago on A Patch is a Patch at Spirit Cloth
A Patch is a Patch
The Wedding Quilt (made before I was documenting such things) is wearing thin. It was a thin summer cloth to begin with. Only 2 layers, the patched top and a flannel sheet backing. No batting. It accepts mending so well. The old Square Patch was almost worn Away. The new Patch is a Circle. Mis...
(((Grace))) love seeing the beauty and magic in your days
Commented 6 days ago on abundance and joy at windthread
abundance and joy
i have cloth. BEAUTY FULL cloth, all kinds. Baskets with Things. Scraps and thread and string. Bells and leather and a crows eye. a white colored pencil and a magic stone rocks from the Other Home in New Mexico. i have so Much. this morning was Bright and Crisp. the Season...
your beautiful hands
Commented 6 days ago on Persistence at Spirit Cloth
Persistence
Still at it. We celebrate every Friday the 13th. We missed July, this time we remembered. That's Magic in the background. The one cloth left on the wall.
love this photo of your garden's harvest!
Commented 7 days ago on #11 almost didn't happen at bee creative
#11 almost didn't happen
Tonight it was a struggle to make my daily pairing... Dinner was a cucumber yogurt smoothie. Glad it was just me to feed tonight. I'm reading Pressure Cooker Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It by Sarah Bown, Joslyn Brenton and Sinikka Elliott. I'm about half...
Knowing you are prepared is a good feeling, I love that Wendy MacDonald the owner of Ariel P Cat's sire Nile Oberon puts her copy of An illuminated Book of Cats in the box of essential things to take whenever they have to evacuate during fire season in the Hunter Valley.
Commented 7 days ago on one more journal post and we're done at windthread
one more journal post and we're done
finished unloading all the stuff i took. Not much. And re evaluated what should be permanently in a tub in the truck bed. We will be good to go. It's like beginning again. There's a shift in the day today...the air is lighter, no more the honey thick air of summer...today, the first da...
love that stark moon out in the paddock
Commented Sep 11, 2019 on first times at windthread
first times
i don't know what they call this kind of land here. The word i know is prairie. So, prairie in 3 directions. Out there, if you click to magnify is a large crescent moon. I asked but no one i asked knew. So...a large crescent moon. Sitting in the prairie. So back to Saturday. We could h...
your eyes of the storm are beautifully surreal
Commented Sep 11, 2019 on A loose page #91119 at Spirit Cloth
A loose page #91119
I've tried my best to repair the audio issues with Feel Free. I think it is ok. I am in the process of proofreading to make sure all content is in order and nothing got lost. I will reopen the site next Wednesday, and do my best to catch up and complete part 2 of Patchwork in Perspective b...
love your playful abstraction of childhood memories
Commented Sep 10, 2019 on the games of childhood at handstories
the games of childhood
Finished "Playground" is hard to photo. The many, many, many tiny stitches don't show up very well. But, sitting here holding it...blue marbles and purple hopscotch squares whisper memories of a blacktop full of monkey bars, swings and see-saws... games of Jacks and chalked Tic-Tac...
a l-o-n-g time ago I cooked a big pot of lentils for a share house I was living in, the recipe called for cumin but there wasn't any in the cupboard so I added a heaped teaspoon of cloves as it began with c & became one of the most inedible meals I have ever made, up there with my last stir fry that Old Man Crow described as rubber bullets mixed with gravel and mattress stuffing.... cooking is truly not my forté!
Commented Sep 10, 2019 on #9 prepare ahead at bee creative
#9 prepare ahead
Another day at home, mostly because I could. And it was a good thing. One of the things that gets me through the week with healthy meals is being able to prepare ahead. Today I made lentils. The lentils could be made into any number of things. Today they were mixed with potatoes, peppers, oni...
love this wild rumbling!
Commented Sep 10, 2019 on Wild Things at Spirit Cloth
Wild Things
The Beast is stirring. Can't tell you right now how many things are welling up in me. Maybe later...
(((Grace))) there and back again
Commented Sep 10, 2019 on home....not home...home...... at windthread
home....not home...home......
We went to Camelot Equestrian Park. Sunday Morning. 600 and some acres. Saturday afternoon, as Jenny and i were working on the kidding pens, sirens began. Ears prick. This hill is along a major road....
(((Dana))) thank you for sharing these views both expansive and so intimate in your magical corner of the world!
Commented Sep 9, 2019 on Fairy woodland in the far northwest at Raven and Sparrow
Fairy woodland in the far northwest
We spent yesterday walking in the local woods with our son and his partner Michele. We went to the high point above our house and looked out across the Salish Sea to the Olympic Peninsula. It was a warm gray day with flat skies and calm water...no bird activity and only intermittent noise, m...
(((Jude))) your wild things make my heart sing!
Commented Sep 8, 2019 on When I find time at Spirit Cloth
When I find time
I've been making waves. I also spilled coffee on this one. Driving ,stitching and rough terrain. I am happy to report that the Feel Free repair project is on track and the site will reopen on or before 9/18/19. Classes will resume at that time. Thank you for your patience.
love the stories this cloth is evoking and that blue moon!
Commented Sep 8, 2019 on the shape of a memory at handstories
the shape of a memory
The back of "Playground" so far. Looking for a big circle to trace for the next layer of stitching, I noticed this plate in the back of the cupboard. It dished up a whole bunch of stories. (Ha.) It belonged to Great Great Aunt Kate, a woman that was long gone before I came into...
what a beautiful photo of your sunlit grapes with autumn in the air
Commented Sep 7, 2019 on #6 simple at bee creative
#6 simple
I spent most of the afternoon today hanging out on the porch recovering from having my last two wisdom teeth pulled. It's all fine, but I will admit it was not wise to wait so long... Soft foods today. Really appreciating simple, like mashed potatoes with some cheese. Simple can be good enough...
love how Marti honours the corn with her deep sensitivity to place and love of family.
Commented Sep 7, 2019 on the conversation at windthread
the conversation
this is Marti's corn. From my laptop screen. You can read her words in yesterday's comments.
namaste
Commented Sep 6, 2019 on Where i hope to go at windthread
Where i hope to go
more, Stephen Harrod Buhner "Once you come to understand, in your experience, that you are just one life~form among many, that you can meet the other life~forms here in moments of tremendous intimacy, it enables one of the most wondrous of explorations possible. To leave the human worl...
love your new Playground!
Commented Sep 5, 2019 on first day at handstories
first day
Today there was a little knitting while waiting for my oatmeal and tea to cook, and then stitching on this piece I'm calling "Playground" for now. Later there was more stitching, followed by the dismantling of a very large falling apart contraption that has been living in the basement fo...
((Dana))) gosh you can write, I love how your beautiful table settings makes a loving space for people to come together
Commented Sep 4, 2019 on Nourishment at Raven and Sparrow
Nourishment
I was listening to Seth Godin's podcast Akimbo this morning and he was saying that the point of school should be to teach children to solve interesting problems. It got me thinking about what problems I am trying to solve with my efforts in tablesetting. I started with the superficial issues I...
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