Play!

Play (verb): engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.

Here you can see what I am working on to keep myself centered in a lopsided world: textile explorations, hand stitching, baking bread from scratch, growing plants indoors and outdoors, stacking up books to make book spine poetry, enjoying nature, and of course dogs.

Book Spine Poetry

Close Your Eyes When Praying
Together in My Name
Give Us This Day
Nature’s Chaos
The Sound of Water
The Springs of Joy

It’s Been a Crazy Summer for Flowers

We had a very late freeze, and lost most of the iris. The deer and the bunnies ate things they have never bothered before. The daylilies froze, too, but they have come back and are especially lovely. I wrote a post on how I seek out inspiration from the colors within nature.

Little Girl Potholders

I think I was seven or eight years old when I made my first potholder with loops leftover from the sock making industry. Woven potholders were one of my first creative endeavors. You could just pick up random colors, and they made their own patterns. I rediscovered the old style loom, and loops that are now designed just for making potholders. The loops now are all cotton, and they actually are all the same size and they fit! Now I lay out the colors in sequence to create patterns. The meditative over, under, over, under is so restorative to my broken world.