The cloth I call Grow. Maybe this counts as 9 dots?
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Caro
Wouldnt know what to do without “my” ladybugs since they keep my aphits in check.
Same here, garden is so alive but i do let things grow, including weeds. Just watching that they dont take over.
And yes, clearly a nine 😀
Very few lady bugs this year. I saw a butterfly yesterday; it was such a nice surprise as we see so few of them anymore. When I was a child I remember caterpillar season. We had such fun playing with the wooly bears. They are gone now too and I haven’t even seen a cricket in ages. My poor cats — no crickets to play with.
well I have quite a wild pollinator garden now, so many many butterflies and bees and humming birds and such. crickets everywhere, and tree frogs, so noisy. Soul-o likes to eat bugs, moths and beetles especially.
We haven’t seen ladybugs, either. In fact, we haven’t seen those hundreds of Japanese Beetles that had always managed to sneak inside with the dog.
You always have much to add to your story cloths. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, it is 9 dots for sure. Many years ago, a friend gifted me a wonderful patchwork blouse, the buttons were painted wooden apple halves and lady bugs and I wore this blouse until it was threadbare, always feeling the magic of lady bugs.
Today, I rescued an old cloth collage and breathed into it, a sense of season, the time of gathering and harvest. I’ve had to stay pretty close to home, caring for hubby as he deals with his health issues so not foraging out in the fields but the need to get my hands in my small copper cauldron, really it’s a pot but to me, it is where alchemy takes place hence a cauldron: what never fails are red onion skins, a splash of vinegar and my little copper cauldron that turns white recycled cloth into my favorite color of hope and healing- green.
After the cloth dried, I pinned scraps and pieces taken from the original cloth; gossamer strands of goldenrod dyed silk, acorn dyed swatches, rusty bits and dark walnut scraps representing birds in flight over a dyed Spanish broom yellow orb, the moon… these earth toned scraps remind me that seasons circle around us and harvest brings forth not only abundance but gratitude…
maybe they’re all up in the north country, like they are each fall and winter, making themselves comfortable and swarming in our house windows. there are too many here, and they dive-bomb while you’re reading at night and bite. of course, they’re the introduced ones, not red but orangey-red.
Wouldnt know what to do without “my” ladybugs since they keep my aphits in check.
Same here, garden is so alive but i do let things grow, including weeds. Just watching that they dont take over.
And yes, clearly a nine 😀
The aphid were out of control here in early spring. some weeds are mighty beautiful
Very few lady bugs this year. I saw a butterfly yesterday; it was such a nice surprise as we see so few of them anymore. When I was a child I remember caterpillar season. We had such fun playing with the wooly bears. They are gone now too and I haven’t even seen a cricket in ages. My poor cats — no crickets to play with.
well I have quite a wild pollinator garden now, so many many butterflies and bees and humming birds and such. crickets everywhere, and tree frogs, so noisy. Soul-o likes to eat bugs, moths and beetles especially.
Absolutely nine! Remembering the fun of painting ladybug rocks in first grade.
right!
We haven’t seen ladybugs, either. In fact, we haven’t seen those hundreds of Japanese Beetles that had always managed to sneak inside with the dog.
You always have much to add to your story cloths. Thank you for sharing.
no shortage of japanese beetles.
Same here. Japanese beetles here. But not as much as usual. Lots of various bees.
there is a honey bee hive nearby!
Love ladybugs 🐞 perfect for your dot cloth!
pops right out atcha….
❤️🐞
😎
Ladybugs are good for Growing.
yes, so fitting!
Ladybugs bring smiles and happiness, more that any other bug I think and wonder why? So child-like they are.
They seem very story book. Like someone drew them.
Yes, it is 9 dots for sure. Many years ago, a friend gifted me a wonderful patchwork blouse, the buttons were painted wooden apple halves and lady bugs and I wore this blouse until it was threadbare, always feeling the magic of lady bugs.
Today, I rescued an old cloth collage and breathed into it, a sense of season, the time of gathering and harvest. I’ve had to stay pretty close to home, caring for hubby as he deals with his health issues so not foraging out in the fields but the need to get my hands in my small copper cauldron, really it’s a pot but to me, it is where alchemy takes place hence a cauldron: what never fails are red onion skins, a splash of vinegar and my little copper cauldron that turns white recycled cloth into my favorite color of hope and healing- green.
After the cloth dried, I pinned scraps and pieces taken from the original cloth; gossamer strands of goldenrod dyed silk, acorn dyed swatches, rusty bits and dark walnut scraps representing birds in flight over a dyed Spanish broom yellow orb, the moon… these earth toned scraps remind me that seasons circle around us and harvest brings forth not only abundance but gratitude…
They are really scarce this year.
It is nice to have a cloth to celebrate nature.
maybe they’re all up in the north country, like they are each fall and winter, making themselves comfortable and swarming in our house windows. there are too many here, and they dive-bomb while you’re reading at night and bite. of course, they’re the introduced ones, not red but orangey-red.
ha! well it’s either too much or not enough…
Perfect addition! I feel like I haven’t seen many this year.
I haven’t either. It was in the car. I brought it to the garden.
Absolutely!!
Love it. 😉
I think it needed this.
Thank you for saving that little life! Such a good feeling!
yeah, so fragile to touch