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oh my goodness. been stitching a lot with words lately - not just from desire, either. found myself stranded without thread, of all things. almost took some clothing apart yesterday in my withdrawal mania. but now, now i’m reunited with threads and ready to dive back into the world of stitching with/on cloth. been shopping [...]

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
so says Antoine de Saint-Exupery

wherever granite stops on its way down hill is where it will remain. that’s what the guide told us as we toured the quarry in barre, vermont last summer, riding in [...]

yes, nature is providing salve for my soul of late, helping me bring order to the chaos. today was a travel day, and once arrived, phoebe and i went straightaway for a romp outside - she to bury some tasty morsels for future snack attacks and me to nap on a rock in the sun, [...]

sometimes
if we
quietly,
tenaciously
connect the knots,
things
begin to take shape . . .

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it occurs to me today that a mother’s love is like a stream: amorphous water that manages to keep moving regardless. trees become dislodged upstream, rocks float downstream and stop, and the water simply moves around or over or under or sometimes through. never stopping. knowing - in ways that only water can know - [...]

today, on mother’s day eve, i took refuge in the familiar land of bookmaking and accomplishment, creating a journal to accompany autoquiltography one. a container of irregular, asymmetrical pages

wrapped in a placemat because table linens are the stuff of which all of my autoquiltography pieces are made

lined in fabric that conjures images of gold [...]

have seen in the past few weeks that some people are like these grasses: soft and graceful when viewed from afar but get close and you find their razor-sharp edges.
today, though, it was time to leave the world of grasses and create a brand new world of my own clothimation:

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