I learned about metta from Grace, but hadn't (yet?) made it a personal practice. So I looked online to learn more. And found variations, which freed me to put words together in different ways.
Recently gifted with two hand-dyed linen cloths (more about that someday soon), I decided to use both. One a soft coral madder, the other a flinty logwood. They brought to mind sunrise and ash clouds.
Deb Lacativa's threads evoked both sun-tinged clouds and fire-rimmed hills ... the browns and greens of tall trees ... the quenching gift of water ...
And as often happens, the back became as important to me as the front.
I don't know where I'm headed with this. It may be just the making of it is all that it needs to be. So I will continue to stitch and hope for the safety of all on Grace's hill ... for the health and happiness of those who surround it ... and ease for us all on this day that commemorates peace.
Deb's thread looks so lovely on the madder fabric. And yes, the back is as wonderful as the front. Prayers being sent out for Grace, her goats and her hill.
ReplyDeleteO this is spiritual...andbeautiful
ReplyDeleteWorried sick about Grace
Love
It does help solidify ones thoughts and intentions into cloth. Your embroidery helps express the worries of our community for Grace and her family.
ReplyDeleteOh Liz, may this be true for all of us and for those we love and hold dear.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I love your stitched printing/writing...it is so well done my friend :)
(((Liz))) namaste
ReplyDeleteSo so beautiful Liz - the power of the words, embedded in stitch and the energy that flows - for safety, for peace, for calm and for quiet and most of all for safety. Thank you for such a 'simple' act that is so powerful.
ReplyDeleteDeb Sposa - thoughts of southern California are also much on my mind ... may you be safe
ReplyDeleteYvette - worried sick, yes ... I had do something
Dana - embroidery was my first love ... going back to it has been calming
Nancy - you too are in my California reveries ... and thank you. I credit Jude with giving me the gumption to explore stitching my own handwriting (and with much else)
(((Mo))) love is the answer
Fiona - your powerful work "Too many poppies" was the inspiration for the middle section ... so timely as we observed Veterans/Armistice Day yesterday. I moved your piece from its usual spot and kept it close by my stitching chair yesterday.
For those of you are not familiar with Fiona's works incorporating poppies, please take a wander here:
https://paperponderings.blogspot.com/search?q=poppies
You have elevated the stitching of words to a high art. This is lovely. I have been following the Woolsey Fire and the Griffith Park one, too — my brother lives in east LA near Glendale and one of the boys is in Koreatown (no threats to either).
ReplyDeleteDee - Hearts for Charleston was when I first explored new ways to stitch words ... and to see meaning in the asemic b-sides. I will always be grateful for being included in that heart-felt collaboration
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