Lucy and Will are so crazy in love with each other. It's hard to live with them for two main reasons.
1. I miss Blake and Red like crazy. OK, I miss Blake in a different way than Red.
2. It's really hard to witness Will and Lucy's affection while I'm stuck in limbo. I don't know if Tom is alive or dead, and I'm in love with another man than my husband. OK, there may actually be more like three reasons.
This place is so very beautiful. The excess of rain that we have had this last year has created a green that seems to explode in intensity from the inside to the out. There are many different shades of green, and together they seem woven in a most beautiful tapestry.
I once saw a tapestry when I was in Astoria. I don't remember any more who it was that showed it to me. I do remember that it was amazing to me, a weaving of colors, patterns, and even textures that created art work. There were young girls cavorting about a field. They were all dressed in an old fashioned way. I think they said that the tapestry was from the late 1700's. It was definitely not from America. The girls wore high curled wigs that were the whitest white I've ever seen. It seemed an odd fashion for young girls to have old lady WHITE hair?
I have spun fabric before. My mother felt that every young lady should know how to spin her own fabric. She especially wanted me to have the skill to use after I was married. She would say with a gleam of excitement in her eye (she LOVED to spin) "Ardis Kay...spinning is a wonderful skill for a woman to have. There may be times of poverty in your life. I, of course, hope not. Nonetheless, part of the reason that your father and I have prospered economically is that I could spin our fabric, and sew our own clothes. I could do the same for others in the community as well. I feel that its a very important skillset."
Granted, spinning and sewing is a bit different from the weaving of a tapestry but they have many features in common. You spin wool to turn it into thread. You then use the thread to sew with, or your weave it in to fabric. Most of the fabric that you handcraft you do not weave artwork in. That is far beyond my skills.
Yet both weaving fabric, and weaving tapestry involves threads, a loom, needles and a great deal of training. I can't imagine that anyone could train themselves to spin, or to weave...and definitely not to design and create patterns, let alone sew garments from all of that process.
It is a marvel to me that many women no longer even do these processes. They either go to a seamstress, or purchase ready made clothing. I enjoy the designing and sewing part of that process. I do not enjoy the shearing of sheep, the carding and cleaning of the wool, and then the spinning and weaving. I love figuring out how to create pattern pieces to create a dress just the way that I want it.
A tapestry is created by interwoven threads that craft art, pictures of life. I often wonder if God has his angels busily spinning and weaving the tapestries of each of our lives. My goodness, that would be a very large tapestry! Imagine depicting just one day of life, now we add different colors representing another life woven through mine, and then the images, and all of the adventure and challenge that I've faced....that would be a most interesting picture!
Well now I'm going to weave myself into a tapestry of slumber!
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