indigo moon

 

This is a brand new embroidery - made as a sample for slow stitch class.
I am teaching the stitches that we used in the manitoulin circle project.
Here:  couching, pearl-bead basting, and eyelet stitch.  Also curved seams.

I was so surprised when I placed this little moon on a runner made last spring for april's wedding, I had to drop everything and reverse-applique it in place.

Slow stitch is a gift on many levels.

because there are flowers

quilt at Mary's cottage (with Jack)

Recall

another quilt aat Mary's cottage

 Go on

the tablecloth Grace gave me

 Move forward

an antique quilt in the Ferguson homestead, Centennial museum of Sheguiandah 

If something is to come our way
It is through risk

Leading no one knows where

the tree of life painting I never finished (acrylic on 14 pieces of gessoed paper)

Because there are still flowers

There is the rose
forever opening for the first and last time

the weight of the thread in this antique embroidery helped me sleep

The heart of a rose is invisible
While being so much more visible than anything.

The text in this post is inspired by Luce Irigaray 

The images are from last summer's card in my camera.

April made that indigo quilt behind them, hand quilted in a hoop while they drove across the USA

I'm emptying that camera.

It's hard to let the summer go.

wabi sabi wedding

This post is about some of April and Andrew's wedding decor

The couple made gifts for their guests - ceramic salt and pepper bowls by the bride, a wooden tray to hold them by the groom

April used cyanotype to print ferns and wild-flower silhouettes on the boxes that held those gifts.

The bride also made thirty of these dotted pots to hold lavender plants.  The pots were carried by (and gifted to) her friends and the lavender has since been planted in our rock garden at the cottage.

Live plants were used for the centrepieces - above maiden hair fern, below, juniper.

Each plant was carefully planted and arranged with moss or rocks in glass bowls, the whole grounded with a flat porcelain plate made by the bride

April made other blue and white plates for the wedding. The ones in the above photo were used to hold the seating name-tags (little gift boxes full of candy made for the couple by the groom's co-workers, seen at the back of the table).

A denim aesthetic.

She made blue and white birds as gifts for children who attended.

wedding

 Mr and Mrs

 with father and

pine cone boys

who is the better cook?

new wedding flag for the cottage
the couple was sung Handle Me With Care by the guests

dyeing for beauty

 beauty crowds me till I die

 beauty, mercy have on me

 but if I expire today

let it be in sight of thee

 text by Emily Dickinson

indigo for the wedding

blue willow cloth

Blue willow cloth for April's wedding, inspired by the blue willow dishes at the cottage.

Fly with the birds of the air
Fly with the wasps of the hill

Swim with the sea-going whale
For they are swiftest

Be upon the clouds of the sky
For they are the rainiest

Be upon the river's current
Cascading to the sea 
                                                               traditional Irish blessing of the bride and groom