Continuing ... The International Day of Peace

The sun has risen on the Texas Hill Country, the same sun that has already risen and set over The International Day of Peace in Australia, where Fiona Dempster's peace bell rang out ...
https://paperponderings.blogspot.com/2017/09/international-day-of-peace.html

As I often do, I called my congressman this morning (which is to say I talked to his staff), leaving him best wishes on this International Day of Peace and expressing my hope that he will take actions toward securing peace in the days ahead.

My own actions will include stitching more peace pins, like the ones pictured here ...

resting on the back cover of Mo's Illustrated Lyrics of Old Man Crow

https://www.etsy.com/listing/459307256/the-illustrated-lyrics-of-old-man-crow?ref=shop_home_feat_1
before they fly away to new homes.

To which I add this further ripple of peace from Mo's blog It's Crow Time
https://itscrowtime.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/mending-our-beautiful-broken-world-with-love-and-peace/

As many of you know, the first peace pin flew to Barry Smith in Maleny
http://rustnstuff.blogspot.com/2017/09/imagine-peace-international-peace-day.html
seven months ago ...

It was a response to his call, 

"It's time ... may hope and peace prevail"

Since then, more than 50 peace pins have traveled to six countries and 19 states within the USA ... sent in response to the comments left here.

Those comments are now being stitched into a peace shawl. Some are but a single word, such as this one used with permission from Dana at Raven and Sparrow

http://ravenandsparrow.typepad.com/raven_and_sparrow/2017/09/lucky-me.html

Others are phrases, such as this one used with permission from Beth at Still Life Pond

https://still-life-pond.blogspot.com/

All will eventually be worn asemically ...

in hopes that their outward appearance will trigger questions that lead to conversations about peace.

I intentionally used up the last of the tannin and cochineal dyed linen from the first peace pin. Until now, I had been wanting to "save it." Now I realize "it's time" to let it go, so it can be a part of something bigger.

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N.B. For those of you who share my love of cloth, I commend to your attention the following about tannin and cochineal:

Dana's beautiful series of posts about the tannin-dyed chuppah she created:

http://ravenandsparrow.typepad.com/raven_and_sparrow/chuppah/

And these two articles about the preservation of cochineal dyeing practices:

http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/summer12/dye.cfm

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/science/mexico-textiles-natural-dyes.html