The wind comes like a whispering ghost a quiet shush, a long breath out down the path, behind my back. I turn and last years leaves are lifting up from the path they float and swirl I watch until the last two slowly dance their way back and forth to the forest floor The post Shhh … | Continue reading
Last week we disturbed these turkeys while walking in the woods. One turkey flew in the opposite direction, crashing through the tree tops. I imagine it was trying to distract us from the flock. It worked, Fate and Zinnia ran towards it and not the turkeys running on the ground. … | Continue reading
Since Kathy asked, I spent my morning making another Cat Face Pillow. Kathy, who sent me the linen towel with those great cat faces on it, left a message saying if I made any more she’d like one for her sister who just rescued a cat. I have to admit, framing those individual cat … | Continue reading
These days the hens are up early. It’s as if they’re just waiting for me to open the door of the chicken coop. They follow me into the muddy barnyard where there are lots of good insects to eat. Or maybe they’re expecting me to feed them the way I feed the donkeys and sheep.... R … | Continue reading
From the beginning my blog has been about showing, writing about and selling my art. But since 2008 when I first started it, my art has expanded from working with the repurposed fabrics that so many of you generously send me to taking pictures, videos and writing about my life, t … | Continue reading
I didn’t get to my studio today. I volunteered at the Cambridge Food Panty this morning, helping to pack up bags for the Backpack Program. It’s provides breakfast and lunch for kids for the weekend. Then I packed up my Meditation Tree and My Cat Pillows and got them in the mail a … | Continue reading
This is the Shagbark Hickory I always visit in The Orphaned Woods. With the help of the rain, we made music together. The post Making Music With The Shagbark Hickory appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com. | Continue reading
The woods are green again. Not up high, but low to the ground. The raindrops are big and heavy. They splat loudly on and around me. Marsh marigolds with yellow buds, perfectly round hummocks sprouting grass like sunbeams, wild mustard, the spotted leaves of Trout lilies and hundr … | Continue reading
I’m a bit behind on posting my progress on my Blue Bailing Twine. A couple of days ago I wrapped the top of the post with twine thinking I’d weave a backing behind the bone. Then I found the old rusty hacksaw blade in the barnyard and decided to weave that into it too.... Read En … | Continue reading
I often throw vegetable scraps over the fence for the sheep, donkeys and hens to eat. This afternoon it was just some hay I raked up from the barn floor. But White Hen wasn’t taking any chances on missing out on something good. And Merricat didn’t mind her nosing around while she … | Continue reading
I sewed down the spiral on my Meditation Tree today. In the center I placed a small mirror. I tried some beads, and shells, but the little mirror brought a whole other layer to the piece. I also painted the old hand quilting coming off the spiral. Just the straight lines making l … | Continue reading
Fate slowly stalked Zip from the barn to the chair under the apple tree. The whole time Zip ignored her. They seem to take turns ignoring each other. Their relationship is the opposite of Zips and Zinnia’s, who are always playfully chasing each other and touching noses. Zip and B … | Continue reading
Emily gave me the little 3×4″ sketchpad with the zinnia on the cover last January. The first drawing I did, over a year ago, was inspired by a small Illuminated book I saw at the Williams College Museum. Now, I keep it in my bag, so in some ways it’s becoming a book of... Read En … | Continue reading
Where I wonder did that bee get all that pollen stuck to its legs this time of year. But then I sneeze and rub my eye. Allergies I’ve been saying for the past week as I pour hot water over last years dried Nettle leaves from the barnyard, into my teacup. Still, that’s a lot... Re … | Continue reading
Somewhere around 60 degrees the people who predict the weather promised for today. And they were right. I opened my studio door early to let the warm air in. It’s almost hard to believe that just yesterday morning there was frost on my Naked Ladies. These the the lilies that spro … | Continue reading
I just got the spiral looking the way I want it to. A gradual spiraling in (After many attempts I realized I had to start from the outside and work my way to the center not the other way around) the lines getting closer as the spiral got smaller. I pinned it on to the... Read Ent … | Continue reading
Fate’s breath made visible by the cold and sunlight. That blue eye. How she disappears in a puff of smoke when I say the magic words… Get the Sheep. The post Magic Words appeared first on Fullmoonfiberart.com. | Continue reading
The sewed some of the flowers on my Meditation Tree today. Little tassels like flowers on a sugar maple before the leaves are full. I made mine from embroidery thread. There are still more to do, but I figured out how to tie them and cut them to size. Flowers full of potential, b … | Continue reading
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I put hay in the feeders and sat on a rock to listen and watch. It was a half hour before the apex of the eclipse. It was only a partial eclipse on the farm, but I was still interested to see how the animals would react to it. I wished Jon could have... Read Entire Post The post … | Continue reading
I had a hard time getting started working on my quilt Thinking Of Snow. I spend the early morning doing shipping so my head was in an organizational place not a creative one. Once I was in my studio, I fussed around with the pieces of the quilt that I’d laid out two days before.. … | Continue reading
The pictures of my animals that I like the best and work hard to get are the ones that show their personalities. I can remember when I got my first three sheep, Suzy, Socks and Tess, and wondering if they were all different from each other. After living with them and the other a … | Continue reading
I spent most of my day working on my quilt “Thinking of Snow”. I pieces together a bunch of “squares”. Some I even sewed to each other. But by the time I knew it was time to quilt when started trying to “fit” the pieces together and couldn’t make any sense of them. Here are... … | Continue reading
Zip never follows me into the barnyard, but he does follow Jon where ever he goes. So when I went to feed the sheep and donkeys some leftover bread from breakfast, and Jon was with me, Zip followed. I don’t know what happens when we’re not around, but Zip and the sheep seem to b … | Continue reading
I had a long list of people who wanted my Spirit Owl Quilt. But there was only one quilt. So after it was sold and I had more fabric left, I decided to make some Spirit Owl Pillows. Wanda was high up on my list, and told me how the quilt would be just right... Read Entire Post … | Continue reading
This is one of the baby Ramshorn snails I wrote about last week. It’s grown to the size of the top of a straight pin with a little round bead on top. But is still so young you can see through its shell. This snail is eating snail poop, which is a perfectly normal thing... Read … | Continue reading
Too much wind for footprints in the snow. Mine will be erased by the time I head back. A tattered birchbark flag flies out straight from the tree. An ice heart drips in the stream. Ferns like fish bones breathe above the snow. The sigh of a car in the distance, they don’t know … | Continue reading
I finished make my Chicken Potholders today. I sold six of them, but have four for sale in my Etsy Shop. Debbie from the Cambridge Farmers market gave me the linen towel with the chickens on it. And I couldn’t resist adding the egg fabric that Lynn gave me. I’m not sure wha … | Continue reading
It was another unusually warm day on the farm. The hens were roaming and when I got close to the gate of the south pasture the sheep were sure I was going to open it for them to graze. “It may feel and smell like it, but isn’t spring yet,” I told them. But... Read Entire Post … | Continue reading
When they didn’t get back to me I called the DEC again this morning. I spoke to some very helpful people who transferred me until I got to the person who could help. “If it weren’t so warm,” Beth said, “you could just leave it outside. But with this weather, if you can double b … | Continue reading
I usually see the pink from while lying in bed, thinking about getting up. As Jon and I talk, it fades to pale blue and is gone for the day. But this morning I was up early again and when I went out with the dogs, I saw that the gray slate roof on my... Read Entire Post The post … | Continue reading
All the animals were enjoying this sunny spring-like day in February. Mostly they lounged around soaking up the heat. Rich blue skies, deep shadows and soft earth. The hens even wandered onto the back porch for a bit. Maybe the warm weather reminded them of the places they use … | Continue reading
Someone from the DEC called me back this morning. They asked about the dead owl and hawk I found in the woods this past week. Since I can no longer find the owl, they said they would like to have the hawk’s body to run tests on them to try and find out why it... Read Entire Pos … | Continue reading
I still haven’t made the ramp for the hens, but am still planning to get it done. They are doing fine without it though, the past few nights White Hen has been in the coop when I go to close it up at night. The chickens are still getting used to having Zip around.... Read Entir … | Continue reading
I’m usually the first one out of bed in the morning. But Jon isn’t far behind. Often when I’m mucking out the barn I hear him leave the house and he joins me in the barnyard. This morning was like an early spring day, they sun warm as the air. Our neighbors wood stove softened … | Continue reading
This weekend Jon and I went to see what my friend Emily Gold was selling at The Left Bank Gallery in North Bennington Vermont. Emily texted me photos of the earring she was making a few weeks ago. I couldn’t get the colors of the pair with pink, red and gold out of my... Read E … | Continue reading
Merricat is well camouflaged between the winter grass and snow. She blends right in. There was little grazing for the animals this morning while the snow still lay on the ground. But the sheep found something to nibble on. I’ve closed off the north and south pastures for the … | Continue reading
I don’t have a name for it yet, but it will come. I got the backing for my quilt for Linda sewn together and started tacking it. I used one piece of black fabric sewn together with red roses on it for the backing. (I’ll take a picture of it tomorrow.) I’m using Bedlam Farm... … | Continue reading
Snowflakes were drifting around the farm long before I got up this morning. While I fed the animals it seemed a snowfall, later, while I worked in my studio they were more like seeds on the wind. Spare and singular they floated on invisible air currants, shy compared to the downy … | Continue reading
Even with the bit of snow it was warmer this morning than yesterday. Warm enough for me to take off my gloves and knot some bailing twine around the gate post. Zip wrapped himself around my feet as I knotted and Fate stalked him, as Fate does. Then Zip posed with my Blue Bailin … | Continue reading
We make long lines in the snow that tell us where we’ve been. Branches and roots the soft meandering whine of a donkey the flow of water from pond through marsh into stream the blood keeping my fingers warm. The insistence of the crow in the highest branch of the tallest tree a … | Continue reading
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My dahlias didn’t survive last weeks hard frost. But before it happened, I tied colored yarn around the stems of the plants so I could tell the flowers apart. Because after they die, they all look too similar to me. This afternoon I dug up each plant, cut the stem from the bu … | Continue reading
Two museums in one week. I feel blessed. I wanted to get to the Bennington Museum while their Haunted Vermont exhibit was still up. It runs through December, so there was plenty time, but I often miss an exhibit thinking just that. What I mostly wanted to see was the Shirley Ja … | Continue reading
Zip stole the show. Jon was taking the video of my and my last ten skeins of wool for sale when then Zip took over. He’s been rubbing noses with the donkeys, Asher, Issachar and Suzy, but as we were taking the video Robin got into it. As you can see in the video, Zip... Read Ent … | Continue reading
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My head is full of wool. A week of wool. Picking it up from the mill, counting it, labeling it, taking pictures and posting them in my Etsy Shop. Checking my email to see what has sold. Messaging Thank you’s (Thank you! Thank you!) and getting pictures of last years wool made i … | Continue reading
For me it’s an annoyance, but the Agrimonia seed knows how to get around. It’s like a little conical piece of velcro, that gets stuck on my clothes when I walk in the woods, and embedded in the sheep’s wool when they graze in the back pasture. It was Karen who identified the flow … | Continue reading