As a reminder, you will see the moon thingie sprinkled around here and there, sometimes linked to password protected content, I am getting to it, opening things up, it takes time.
As a reminder, you will see the moon thingie sprinkled around here and there, sometimes linked to password protected content, I am getting to it, opening things up, it takes time.
Hi friends 🥰 and Jude..
THANKS FOR EVERY THING..🙏 I do learn new ways to listen to all you say, how you say it…blessings to you, all the friends .and myself🙏💥
Thank you very much for everything. 🌸
love some fringe or ragged edges. The videos are wonderful, I particularly liked the idea of the shadow fringe.
I saw a stunning photography exhibition yesterday in which the artist, a native woman had used a stitched red line and fringe through all the photos to represent connectedness, history and lineage. Haunting and simple.
ah, yes, the thread that runs thought it!
Everytime I see this story cloth it just keeps getting more and more beautiful. So full of texture. Love !
it came together so easily really… I love when that happens, the flow.
Roots, dangling threads, fringe…I recently read a remarkable book, Dr. Sharon Blackie’s, If Women Rose Rooted. During my reading, so many thoughts and emotions ran through me for although this book centers on women, their myths, their need to assert themselves, the landscape is Celtic, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, especially for me, is a touchstone, my heart’s landscape.
Before I had finished the last page of the book, I had stitched made three cloths, using many of my foraged dyed cloth scraps. In holding to the need to rise and feel rooted, the first cloth had 3 different colored dangling roots consisting of 6 strands of floss, placed in different places. The 2nd cloth had a long 6 floss strand “root”, dangling in the center and the last cloth, a much smaller one, a cloth repurposed that had sat outside on my little iron trellis, facing the sun, winds, rain and snow of New Mexico, also had a thread “root’ but this one was smaller and looped at the top.. Nothing that I have made on cloth has ever been done so quickly but the need to “root” myself in this story was so compelling. The dangling threads, fringe, “roots” are a vital part of these cloth stories.
Marti, I love how a book sparked your lineage roots and manifested in “rooted” stitch work! Thanks for sharing that inspiration (and the book—this is the second recommendation I’ve been given about it).
Jana, thank you for your good words. My lineage is not Irish, my parents came to America from Spain and I am first generation but I have never felt the pull toward Spain that I do toward Ireland. Have never traveled to Spain but in 2006, I was able to travel to Ireland and the pull in my imagination became a reality. Walking the green hills of Ireland, this land of mist and myth, the river trails, the bog land, and and the ancient places, felt like coming home….
I am 1/3 Irish!
I love the concept of loose threads, there is such potential in that concept…
It took you into a more magical direction, I LOVE it so much how it turned out! Roots, yes we all need that more these day, to be more grounded and connected!
If you ever want to apart from this beauty I’ll be happy to gave her a home❤️
oh, that is so sweet, she was in the shop this morning. she crept in quietly unannounced… my selves are often like that…
Oh no, Just seen this and she is gone. I’m sure she went to a wonderful home!❤️
she left before I had a chance to announce her…
Many eyes were watching her! Many ❤️❤️❤️ were loving her, no wonder since your creations are just so magical!!!
the continuing is captured so beautifully in your videos. that memorable music of magic diaries… definitely a carpet ride. can never say thank u enough for all taking all of us ragmates along on this amaaaaaaaaazing spirit adventure. hey, ho!
it has seriously been a wild ride.
Thinking. I did nothing with my recent ‘fringe’ – no twining, no braiding…just hanging loose. Loose fringe. I will continue to consider…
loose fringe is the origin of all fringe!!!
As a newcomer, I am in awe of the “roots of going” that twine through the comments among all the old friends here. I bow and feel tender toward all these loving exchanges. Glad to have stopped by today.
Ragmates 4 ever…❤🌊
Love seeing this…Twining is one of my favorite things to have learned over the last few years. Love thinking of all the possible ways to use it.
yes, and it is so associated with basket!
and it reminds me of all the great things I learned in girl scouts…
Yes, so much has changed in some ways, and in others, nothing has changed. It was a joy to watch the fringe videos, and revisit Magic Diaries. Yup, here we are, unravelling, all in good order, like the rest of creation. I think it was David Whyte who said, “I am appreciating myself to the rhythms of my own disappearance.” I feel so lucky to have lived so long, into my 80s. Thanks again, Jude, for all the wisdom and beauty.
oh that quote resonates… thank you.
here we are!
Magic Diaries WERE Magic… and so nice to see your rings on your fingers.
Haven’t made fringe for so long.
yeah, so much has changed hasn’t it?
It really has.
it’s been many moons…
Livin’ on the Fringe…a goode way to be.
we are always on the edge of unraveling