so..on we go. i should have taken a pic of the center piece on the clothsline. i was preoccupied with Japan, with my brother calling very early. i simply moved through the day in a kind of daze almost. but here we are. the Whole Thing taken down and placed on the adjusted table top. the center piece in from the line and layed in place. i will not stitch it now as i'd thought. i realized that the Whole Piece needs to be invisible stitched...well....as in every ...ooooo, what?...let me go measure. every 1/4 inch across its expanse. all the way down. then i can stitch in the center.
i have 5 rows done. the feeling of them...the two layers of woven cloth and the third of the backing...all becoming One, is well....ecstatic.
my brother is reading through my mother's notebooks that details the weather, what she ate, whether she slept or did not sleep. he read them aloud to me for about an hour and a half while i stitched this morning. he found too, papers i'd never seen before. the birth certificate of my mother's mother Francis Katrin Ludvinka, Jzero.....something, Moravia. he will send me the correct spelling. i can SAY it, but not spell it.
the daughter worked to create a different space for the next doe to kid.
i did not talk to the granddaughter. but i thought about how i have not yet sent her the cloth she asked for...the one i made while i was waiting/anticipating the first class with Jude.
and inbetween, i looked at photographs of Japan. the displaced people in shelters. all surrounded with kinds of cloth as they waited, sitting on the floor. waited for something, not knowing what that might be? but they have their cloth with them.
