Category: mending

Mending, continued

A little cabin fever today. I definitely felt stuck in the house. Cold, lots of ice. I walk five days a week to satisfy my step counter app, but I’ve completed my five days...

Mending

Thinking about mending. Trying to make it more than it is. Exploring the symbolic dimensions. These things are beyond me. I just need to do it. “Use it up, wear it out, make it...

This morning

I woke up at dawn. I saw this gleam in the sky. When I put my glasses on, I could see it was a crescent moon, accompanied by a planet. Venus? The dawn was...

New binding

I started hand-stitching this binding today. It’s my niece’s quilt, I believe my mom (her grandmother) made it. My niece’s favorite color has always been purple. When looking for a fabric to use, I...

September

It doesn’t seem like we really had summer this year. It was 47 degrees this morning! But it’s September, and I welcome the new month. I am really enjoying the circle garden. The native...

Gabriel’s quilt

It’s so rainy and overcast, I’m in a bubble of cloudy weather. Better than being under a heat dome. I don’t spend much time in the garden though, too wet. I hope the seedlings...

Thought feathers

Drawings are thought feathers, they are ideas that I seize in mid-flight and put down on paper. Louise Bourgeois I took a Zoom class yesterday with London Drawing Group. “Louise Bourgeois: Doodling and the...