Dearest sewing friends,
I hoped very much to be doing a big, detailed post today for #needleworkmonday - but the work was so slow and I prioritised the sewing rather than the documentation of it... I still have a LOT to do, but the basic form of this sacred red dress just took shape, and I wanted to at least share that!
The beautiful red cotton fabric is a pillow case and sheet from the house of a dear friend who recently died... I wanted to make something special from his old things - things that are going to be thrown away if no-one can re-use them, and also I need special clothes for my growing belly, as I am gestating!!
The sheet was a fitted sheet - so it had elasticated corners, and I have used that to make the bust and the back of the dress: I basically cut the sheet in half, and then draped it, sewing the two sides together, and then placing some straps that I made out of the pillow case, into it - then adding a waistband and buttons...
I'm doing it all by hand: I not only lost this dear friend very recently, but am also going through a cosmic rollercoaster with my dear stepmum being in a very grave state of health: I am still hoping for a miraculous shift in cirumstances, which is even now possible, with Gerson Therapy, but am also sensing the shift into final days, and am heartbroken. I've known my stepmum longer than my own mum.
Lengthy sewing sessions helps to ground and distract me, to some degree, as I await news from Scotland. I am very grateful to have my hands full of a very challenging project like this; every stitch demands such a concentration of eyes, mind, heart - and I make a lot of prayers - whilst having lots of memories and lots of feeling flow up and out of me.
I have had a lot of drama and grief in my life, and have needed calming activities like sewing and gardening, cooking and DIY, to keep everything harmonious and to stop my energy from pouring out of me. I am a high-sensory sentient, and am returning to my psychic and clairvoyant abilities, having numbed them as a child.
Being in the blessed beingness of gestation has brought all of my senses into even greater lucidity than usual: because of this, I have to be super-careful around what I wear, and to be attent to having not just protection from the cold, but also energetic protection: the choice of fabrics that I wear each day, feels very important, and the more handmade by myself they are, the more right they feel when I wear them!
I will share more in a more detailed post, with better photos, when I am less strained emotionally, and when I am less tired from sewing all day long! I even lost two needles, and am nervous about where they are going to turn up!! Eeek! I found one pin already, tucked into my enormous knitted jumper - hope the needles are just on the floor somewhere and not in my clothes!
LOVE to you all in your beautiful projects and crafting,
