I'm on PAUSE. In the last weeks of summer, the first week of Kindergarten, the waiting and the simultaneous transitioning around big changes at work...I'm out of the groove.
But I have been sewing. Made a 24-hour marathon tote bag for the exiting pastor at church, a lovely item if I do say so (and no I didn't make time to shoot a photo). Designed it myself, no pattern, just a sense of what I wanted to accomplish. I used some lovely home dec and printed panel fabrics -- birds and flowers, and a quiet little spider on the back. A perfect tote for knitting and other light weight projects. She seems to like it, has already put it to use she says, though her note of thanks seemed mostly concerned with the pain of parting. Glass half-empty, I guess. But hopefully she will see only brightness and her own potential creativity when she's using the bag.
The other project, in the past two weeks, was to finish a scrappy pillow that my son and I started together last year. He grew tired of the project before it could become a blanket, this string-pieced cloth of greens and reds (again, no time for a photo) -- but it was the perfect size for a pillow for Auntie Dede, a gift of appreciation for her years of loving daycare. I printed a cute photo of H on cotton, and mounted it on matching fabric, embellishing with buttons and beads and yarn -- the photo is safety pinned to the center of the pillow cover, and can be removed should she wish to rest her head on the pillow itself (the pins are little colorful ones that blend nicely.)
So these transitions have been marked by some artistic action, a slightly more domesticated kind. This will have to do, until I can bring my heart around to the moon and the birds again.
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