Hanging by a Thread

Consolation of Nature and the Meditation of Craft. 

 14 months of nature walks, recorded in scrap books and 14 months of spinning and knitting bandages.  A timeline and a symbol of healing and confinement, the meditation of the walk and the meditation of the making process, whilst all the time the natural world continues its life regardless of humankind's plight.

Home spun local sheep fleece knitted and embellished with hand dyed sheeting strips, things to hand in the time of 'lockdown'.

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Bandages so far, darned and embriodered with hedgerow dyed yarns.

 

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Preparing the next fleece.  A white woodland from Saddleworth

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Carded and ready to spin.  The fleece has a short staple and is proving difficult  to spin.  It will be used to knit bandage five.  One for each change in lockdown status

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Four months on.  Autumn is in the air, locked down, unlocked, semi lock down, we await this week's announcement.  Nature continues its cycle oblivious to our plight.  

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"Above all do not lose your desire to walk.  Everday I walk myself to a state of well-being from every illness.  I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no other thought so burdomsome that one cannot walk away from it.  But by sitting still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.  Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be alright."
Soren Kierkegaard

Hanging by a Thread