EVERY PROJECT BRINGS A UNIQUE LESSON

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EVERY PROJECT BRINGS A UNIQUE LESSON
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#### Dearest Friends Who Love Needlework!

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###### This week has been PACKED and I'm aware that sometimes things develop more and more intensely the more we get into summer; heat, socialising and co-creating all accelerate exponentially. I've been sweating my way around fixing up the Arthouse for a house tour yesterday, and got a lot of good exposure for my clothing - and the house for sale. It feels VERY good to have a house much neater, cleaner and harmonious, and I'm JUST getting back into my focus on sewing - feeling into what I want to make next.

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I wanted also to finish up writing and sharing about this stripey dress: I don't see myself wearing it - or anyone else really! It's pretty weird! BUT I kind of love how out-there it is! And the process of creating it brought such a new vein of inspiration, that it made me think of how vital experimentation is... Even a lumpy stripey floppy dress can bring a great flow of new ideas and energetic release forwards.

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This garment began as four contrasting stripey items - I had more, but as much as I ADORE the thick-striped pink and white sheet, it was a painting sheet and a bit too painted on. The remaining items were; a batwing yellow ugly-shirt, a funny dark-green football-referee-like long-sleeved blouse, a red and white stripey blouse and a scrap length from a blue (thinner stripes) sheet.

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I had a strong urge to play with these mixed stripes, and to make a kind of layered dress - to let it all come together easily and organically, and to just accentuate here and there with a contrasting frill. I really loved the primary colours, and had a sense of the dress forming itself from the green stripey blouse downwards - in tiers.

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So I chopped off the sleeves of the green blouse, and it instantly took the shape I wanted. It was relatively easy also, to make the three main tiers and sew them together - they mostly needed minimal ruching. The more complicated part was the thin yellow strip of ruffle which went around the waist at a particular angle - lower at the front and higher at the back. I'd wanted to make something of this sort of construct, for a while.

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It all came together intuitively (as usual) and without to much wrestling - but it isn't as elegant and neat as I dreamed it'd be! It is however a very fun and refreshing dress, which I may even end up performing in or selling to my friends in theatre. It DID however free up something groovy inside of me, where I got closer to the feeling that I want to make in clothing, even if I didn't nail it.

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This felt like a great symbol of how we move forward in true creative mastery: we have to make crappy things! Not intentionally useless or less-beautiful stuff BUT things that are not necessarily for a specific goal - apart from our own growth. As I know from my long painting career, the process is MUCH MORE potent and important than the destination - or the individual artwork. Similarly, I feel this sense of not being too precious about every item I make, as this can really slow down the energy - creating a kind of stagnant pond, or bringing a contrivedness into one's practise.

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Ultimately, I am trying to get to Flow. Nothing should be clung onto or worried over too much, if it is getting in the way of Flow. The Flow that I have been immersed in for so many years as an artist, feels like a deep knowing-connectedness-alignment-harmony-vitality. It is clear, in this state of Flow, that we are One with each other, with the world, and with the cosmos and whatever divine intelligence powers it.

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#### So I never want to get stuck in the details, the stops on the journey, or the things I am 'not doing perfect'!

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It is very good to talk about this, to write it out and to let it go. The dress otherwise might have really got to me this week! I certainly slowed down my sewing rhythm, though that was partly because of the huge job of having to put the house in order, and definitely heard a wee repetitive niggle in my head about 'you can't do this'/ 'you're only ever going to make crap lumpy clothing that no-one will wear'! Yikes, I let that be spoken out in my mind, thanked whoever had put that in there, and moved on.

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I have a much clearer space to work in now, so no excuses! Hehe! I have laid out some ideas for the next garments - one beautiful funky green flowery vintage blanket for an elegant coat, and one vintage-y German Jesus-blessing sort of tablecloth which I want to make a dress from. Really exciting to have **sort of** images in my mind and heart about the new pieces: let's see if I an keep up this momentum and get stuck into new 'undesigns' :-D

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#### Much love to you all in your worklifelove this week - looking forward to see what you'll all be creating!

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