https://paperponderings.blogspot.com/search/label/Peace?
and Barry Smith
of Maleny, in Queensland Australia.
The Peace Pin Project was begun as a result of their example, as detailed here:
The Peace Pin Project was begun as a result of their example, as detailed here:
And now I am privileged to be a part of their latest efforts in observance of The International Day of Peace this September 21st.
Last month Barry sent me ten peace leaves, here arrayed on some hand-dyed silks from a workshop I attended in 2015 ...
the making of which he wrote about in this post:
And Fiona sent a trove in June ...
including ten letterpress pieces ...
which I am now sending out to the stitchers who answered Dee Mallon's call two years ago to create the Hearts for Charleston quilt
https://deemallon.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/sent-hearts-for-charleston-quilt ...
https://deemallon.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/sent-hearts-for-charleston-quilt ...
The Hearts for Charleston stitchers are/were:
- Dee Mallon (Masachusetts)
- Mo Orkiszewski (Australia)
- Hazel Monte (Washington)
- Gillan Wang (Massachusetts)
- Kathy Dorfer (California)
- Nancy Erisman (California)
- Dana Webb (Washington)
- Kristin Anne Freeman (Montana)
- Maggie Rose (New Jersey)
- and yours truly (Texas of course).
... [Peace] strictly held by none is loosely bound
by countless silken ties of love and thought
to everything on earth the compass round …
