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Water: 100 Days (76)

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Tying Up Loose Ends

Day 76: 

Yesterday was brimful, and while I did get some squares done, I did not post. One thing that I have done over the years when I learn of the pain of someone I love, is to make everything a prayer, a meditation, a strand that sends my heart to them. So yesterday’s squares were about sending healing and comfort to one of my beloveds who is in the first stages of an enormous grief.

This web that we make between us, in joyful times and in grieving times, in the horror of the present days, and the magic of the moment–this web is what we have.  In some ways, every stitch, every shuttle, every round, all the handwork we do, is emblematic of that web we build between us.

I’m so grateful for so many beloveds on my web.

These are the first five of my last batch of 25 for the granny square cardigan, watched over by Mary of the Streets, and a stone from the Ganges River resting in Susquehanna River water. The same water flows through all of us.


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The First Sleeve: 100 Days (20)

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Day 20:

I finished the first sleeve. I was afraid it might not look right when I attached it, so I crocheted it on before making the second. I am tired of unraveling, and I am very much in love with the painterliness of this sleeve, so I was really hoping it would work, and I think I have finally got it! One more sleeve, then stitch up the sides, and decide whether to do some finishing at the neck and waist, or leave the rolls, and then I am done.

I thought when I began this project that I might just whip through my projects to get as many finished as possible, but instead I am unraveling when I don’t absolutely love what I’ve made, and enjoying playing with color. I think I’ll finish this in the next week or so.  

I have learned so much from this project. I’m learning to let go and remake something if I am not satisfied with it. Unraveling, like all grief-work, is a sacred process.

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