Just an old loose thought.
A full Spectrum Ding. Ding!
Michelle. I know many of you remember our dear ragmate, she gifted me a little crystal and I hung it in the front window Yesterday. When you are waiting for time to pass, expecting something other than what is... well you know, like waiting for Spring, it seems like it will never come. And that ruins the moment. This morning this was a reminder.
It takes forever, this kind of stitching. Row upon row of split backstitch. Forever is so big. I mutter to myself... Forever has come and gone many times in my small mind. In perspective.
We live on in the memories of ones left behind and in the works we have done. I am the elder of my family and I have my great grandmothers quilts so I guess I am the last to remember her until I am gone and someone else gets her quilts. Then she will continue to live on. And so it is with all of us.
Love the prism colors & the block! Yesterday I stepped outside and even though there is still some snow on the ground, the light seemed different . . . brighter, clearer! Sometimes it feels like a long haul towards Spring. The inside of your block made me think of walking a spiral . . . in the block it’s square, more like a maze, but still it draws me in towards the center. The stitching is beautiful!
You have me imagining some new kind of maze, where we find ourselves instead of getting lost.
Yes! Walking a spiral has always done that for me . . .
😄
to rise a bit above it does help sometimes
Absolutely!
I love your Old loose Thought.. “And finished was unimagined”
Michelle was/is a Rainbow!
Yes!
I came across a book that Michelle had given me a while ago, her words in the front of the book. Seems like she’s been gone a really long time.
But she keeps showing up, like a song you suddenly remember…
I am also waiting for a change of season. I shouldn’t be wishing time away as I get older, but we are in autumn down under and I am done with being hot. Give me days where my energy is not sapped by the heat. Where I can sit and stitch in comfort. Oh, wouldn’t that be lovely!
At least you have something to look forward to!!!
Beautiful Michelle visit. Love how this cloth grows.
We are supposed to get quite warm later in the week. We’ll see.
It is very much inspired by the large cloth I call Grow.
Every year( and I mean EVERY Year) I am so over with wintery weather in March. I just want it OVER! I want pretty trees, flowers, sunshine, warmth. I am so tired of finding the happiness in a bit of pretty over here or over there. I try not to have this mood, but it seeps in. By this time I am DONE.
ha, we honestly get there right?
Your work is such a reminder to me of stillness, patience and to use time well.
Thank you for saying…
Another stormy day here. I have an online conference to attend and am stocking up a few things to work on as I listen. Kind of glad that the weather isn’t good…hard to sit inside looking out the window. Love seeing the flower form.
And I do think of Michelle at times…her way of going. 🙂
Yeah, she was something…
just the way we look at it…
Oh, but in March there is so much stuff coming up out of the ground. Little ephemerals are beginning to push through with their short bloom time to come. Every day now there will be new things to discover.
yes, the moments are there to savor.
“As long as there is one person on Earth who remembers you, it isn’t over.” ~ Oscar Hammerstein, Carousel. Michelle’s thoughts she shared as she walked around NYC. A gift to us.
I remember her. I remember her saying that.
Thanks no
it is so nice to know she is remembered by so many.
that’s an intriguing little spiral in the middle … visible seams have become my most favorite thing
I have some new ideas!
beauty is worth it.
❤️
Good Morning!
Seriously, I love doing that sort of stitching. So meditative and feels so good…. Thank you for sharing this gorgeous piece. When I first looked, I thought it was a book!
Sending hugs… 37 more days for me and I’ll be living at my beach house in the campground. I CAN NOT WAIT! I find it encouraging to do a count down. 💛
Hey! Enjoy the waiting!
I swore, this winter, that I would not wish too hard for spring, that I would not hurry the calendar. It makes time move too fast, and time is a finite quantity when you get older. Better to linger in each moment and make it last.
Too bad it takes so long to get here…🤣
Good one (((Jude))) !
Ha!
Savor the wait. This Liminal Time. Is it possible to call down a New Moon?
who knows?
This is such a good thought, especially to mind after attending the funeral of a 37 year old young man yesterday. Enjoy each moment we have.
yeah, we forget, we forget, we forget…