Strategies for healing a broken heart through indigenous textile practices.
Category: Grieving Process
Healing Through Indigenous Textiles
Beginning a new journey of healing and transformation after walking out 3 sun rotations of 13 moons associated with the death of my mother.
You Don’t Know What Love Is Until You Know The Meaning Of The Blues!
Reflections on the 3rd anniversary of my mother’s death, and the lessons I’m learning about living life with purpose.
I Was Blind But Now I See So I Practice Machine Quilting
Free motion machine quilting as a vehicle for healing from grief.
The Last Day of Spring | Dyed Cloth & Stitching
Remembering the day I became a motherless child.
Momma & Me: Indigo Blues & Slow Stitching
Sunday was my birthday and I had a writing assignment in my Loft Literary Center class to write a 26 sentence story. I had never heard of such a thing but the idea is to begin each sentence with the letters in the alphabet, i.e. A, B, C etc. The hardest for me was “X”,…
Drawing & Researching a Design for a Modern Quilt
Freewriting + Geometric Quilt Designs + Memoir = Modern Quilt Today, I acknowledge and accept the reality of no longer having a mother, father, two grandmothers, one grandfather, two great-grand fathers and one great-grand mother. I was blessed to have had their love, support, teachings, stories, wisdom, songs, jokes, secrets about cooking, instructions about life,…
Freewriting + Geometric Quilt Patterns + Memoir
Freewriting About Designing Geometric Quilt Patterns That Relate To Memoir How can historical geometric quilt patterns tell a story about me and my life? Where do I begin? What’s the connection? I’ll begin with what I remember about quilting with Mama, Yat and Mama Mary. I remember them cutting squares and triangles from old clothes…
From Wait List to a Summer Class @ Penland
Everyone who knows me as a creative hands person, knows that I owe by loyalty to Penland School of Crafts. I love Penland the way some women love a man. I love Penland because it’s the place on Earth that consistently provides me with an opportunity to transform my life and my creative hands. A…
Free Writing, Drawing, Indigo Dyeing & Stitching: Marks 4 Healing
A Healing Balm To Comfort Grief: Free Writing, Drawing, Indigo Dyeing & Stitching As an acknowledgment to my momma’s Crossing Over one month today, I’m sharing my Free Write Blog post. To honor promises that I made to my momma, Doris Lee Jones, her mother, Minnie Eva Woodard and my grandmother caregiver, Mattie (Yat) Burnette…
