Dearest Needlework and Hive Friends,
How is this midwinter time going for you (in the northern hemisphere)?? We (@vincentnijman and I) are settled under a crisp white duvet in a town B&B, whilst our tent sits in freezing fog up the glen!
We’ve had two days already of glorious luxuriating and calming our nervous systems, in a simple, tidy, clean room outwith the chaos and un-navigable problems of the rental house that we have still until we go to Italy. We’re enjoying everything about this minibreak, including spending time with Vincent’s big family this week – several of whom I had never met until now.
the remaking of a phone cover from a special fabric that my stepmum left me
and which I lost in Caserta earlier this year; so glad to have it "back"!
And it has been a wonderful space for sewing!!
the green silk shirt - about to become new boxer shorts!
Each day I’ve filled the space when we’ve been breakfasting in the piazzetta, all piled into someone’s kitchen, or just chilling back at the B&B, smartening up (an orginal seam, not one that I had recently expertly created!) in Vincent’s new silk boxers which I made out of a vintage green shirt, running tiny neat stitches along a VERY extensive zip to correct a favourite gifted winter jacket, and adding pieces of a gorgeous mustard plaid jacket to a turquoise skirt…
It has been a week of relaxing and practise moving, loving and connecting with new family. The stitches that I’ve worked on between other activities, have felt more confident and less labourful. They’ve moved more easily, and this has made me feel like everything is just that tiny wee bit more Right in the world.
It fascinates me, how the mastery of working intuitively on any particular piece of fabric, creates this sense of stitching the world together; of putting thiings Right, and of letting go somehow of the weight of things that are going less Right.
The unfolding of the world theatre too, is gathering pace - illustrating finally that humanity is beginning to have a significant awakening which may actually end well!!!! – and rippling into the very fabric of reality (even if many folks are still getting their information from the corrupted bubbles of algorigthmic totalitarianism): I can feel the freedom and sovereignty of all beings come into focus every day. This is not a time like before: this exquisitely precise time is one in which everything – E V E R Y T H I N G is starting to invert – to revert to its Righted state: dark intentions are being brought into the light, and the whole evil construct that was the utterly perverted pharmaceutical agenda to destroy the core spirit of human life – is being corrected.
From my young years, I felt this crushing weight of the state of the world: it sat heavily in my heart and mind, my bones and cells, from as early as I could look puzzled sideways at a nursery carer, knowing that they were not fully compos mentis – or at a parent, knowing that they were not fully present (through alcohol, usually). As a wee being with a strong spiritual direction and sentience, it was torturous to feel how blindly adults around me seemed to be flailing in their lives.
Almost every step of the way through my decades, it has felt similarly overwhelming, and my solitude out and inside of relationships, my distance from mainstream and from the heart of family, community, civilisation even, has been a near-impossible burden of karmic overload. These recent months and weeks, days and hours, minutes and other-dimensional/ multidimensional moments with Vincent – have started to feel safe for the first time. And like the future is more potentially positive than it ever was. Like the weight I was carried is now being shared by the collective, by all of us, on some mysterious level – so I don’t have to carry it, impotently, on my own.
The stitches that I sew have a new weight to them, like I know how to hold things together in a way that I never did. Like they have the power to change the world, to change minds and hearts by weaving colour depth and meaning into them. I feel optimistic and free-er than I ever did – and the emotion of holding-it-all-in, which now drops away, is most palpable.
Since leaving Italy, as necessary as it was to get significant distance between me and there, it hasn’t been so easy to see my long-term future in my sewing practise. But today I feel the lightness and success of what I’m doing – perfectly formed and quirky, chaotic and purposeful, improvised and instinctual, healing and expanding – I feel it all making sense in the context of the greater whole: like sewing is a mystical practise which radiates out into the Universe, no less.
I’ve always known the sacred geometry of our reality, of the cosmos, to be a real and tangible aspect of The Mystery. But these days are the first time I am feeling that magic leak into the everyday – into social structures, ideas and the values of our collective being. Maybe my stitches help directly in this process of transformation – of our spiritual evolution.
It feels possible even that my stitches, and your stitches, are truly sewing the Universe back together nicely….
me and Vincent's mama, bonding over scrabble
What do you think??
With love and good vibes to all in the Needlework Monday community,
I knew the therapeutic power of sewing, because it helps to stay focussed on an activity and forget the problems during the time you occupy the mind and hands in a productive task, be its result for you or for others. But the spiritual dimension that you add in this publication has seemed wonderful and very accurate to me. Each of us is a thread of the tapestry of the universe, we have our place in it, and when we understand and accept it we begin to live in a deeper and more real way. Keep sewing with your hands and heart.
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It is very beautiful to read your great comment here, dear @palomap3 🤗🌟 Yes indeed: throughout my life I've had clues as to how we co-create with the Universal/ Divine Intelligence, and getting older really does unveil this more and more.
Happiest New Year to you!
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Oh I feel this! I see it! It’s so clear that the masses are going through emotions that I let myself feel in my teens and felt so alone feeling at the time….
But I don’t know if it’s a sense of relief for me, I feel I’ve already dropped the burden and am focused more inwardly (carrying other, more subtle burdens maybe 😝), not even really paying much attention to what’s going on in the wider world except to the extent that it inspires me to create something.
We weave reality so the act of weaving has its own sort of sacredness.
And my little funny indirect episode with Vincent’s family:
I was browsing through indie games after 15 years of not owning a game console, and wanting to reconnect with video games as an art form this time around.
I saw a retro style game called Minit and thought “This one!” partly thanks to the music and partly because the overall concept was a bit experimental and interesting. Played through it, enjoyed it, and so I checked who made it and the name was familiar. I told Vincent about it and he said “That’s my brother!”
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That is such a great anecdote about @vincentnojman 's wee brother, @selfhelpfortrolls - and thank you for sharing your reflections here: it is very good to know that others resonate... These are such dynamic and mysterious times...
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Glad to see you settling in and connecting with friends and family. Sewing sure has a therapeutic effect. that phone's cover fabric looks soft to feel, which will sure serve its purpose.
Enjoy the rest of the holiday.🤗🤗
Thank you lovely @glorydee 😍🤗🥳 Yes, we've had a lot of celebration this week: barely time to look at Hive 🤭 All the good wishes for a potent creative New Year 🧡💚❤
Hopefully you spending good days with his family 😊 for the rest, good job as always, must not be easy to needle on a b&b with little space
Aye, it is a fabulous week indeed, dear @daviseownzall - if rather overwhelming at times! Thanks for your great comments and Buon Anno Nuovo a te ed a tuoi!
There's almost more space here than in our rental home ;^)
Lol... Happy new year buddies!
Bon anno novo!
That jean skirt and the coat combo be giving a retro vibe 😍... Over here in Western Nigeria, it's hot 🥵. I wish it can go back to being cold.
Aw, I hope that you can stay cool even when it is superhot, @bipolar95 🤍🤍🤍🤍 And yey, I'm so glad you enjoyed seeing my sewing this week - Happy New Year!
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I love what you sew
It looks nice!
Thank you indeed, @bisolamih ! It is lovely to have your support 🌟Happy New Year!
Wow, the suit pocket is very plain and beautiful, you did a nice project, they are all beautiful, Well-done ma'am.
Aaw, thanks for sharing this kind response dearest @pepefashion - you support is always so appreciated!
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Thanks for sharing, Lee - and the happiest New Year to you and yours 🤗🌟
You have implemented very nice ideas
Thank you sincerely for saying so, @sumaiya777 🤗🌟🤍🥳 Happy New Year to you 🌟
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You make me miss sewing!!❤️
And yes, though you might already know that, coming from my side, sewing definitely can be a very spiritual practice. Leading the way, or showing what we missed, calming the mind... I love to see your creations, especially silk-underwear sounds awesome!!😁