Even though the world outside my studio is deeply blanketed in snow:
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There are flowers blooming in the studio:
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And, now, Dragonflies, with their lovely healing energy, are dancing in my studio!
I have just finished embroidering dragonflies and spirals on a prayer shawl that I wove on my 4 harness loom, inspired by Saori weaving:
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It’s 13 inches wide and 101 inches long, so can be wrapped in all kinds of different ways:
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Here are views of some of the dragonflies:
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I used chenille, cotton, silk and rayon in the dragonfly wrap/prayer shawl.
Usually, I do the embroidery while the shawl is still on the loom, but this time, I chose to do the embroidery afterwards, as I needed to see the placement of the spirals and dragonflies on the piece as a whole.
Dragonflies always fill me with a sense of awe and wonder.
It makes perfect sense to me that people who are engaged in healing often feel that the dragonfly has special significance to them.
They certainly do to me! 🙂
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Howdy,
I like this weave structure and the colors of this shawl.
Peace,
LuLu
http://www.lulu-too-beaucoup.blogspot.com
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Beautiful!
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Thank you so much, Caroline! 🙂
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This is a thing of stunning beauty! It has such an organic sense of life and movement and everything lovely.
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Thank you so much, Aleksa! It feels wonderful to wrap up in it! 🙂
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Oh MY! Not only is the shawl breath-taking but the picture of the snow just made me swoon. We don’t get snow here, or once in a blue moon have 3 flakes in the air, and I grew up with it and really miss it. That should be a postcard it’s so gorgeous. And I WANT that shawl!!!!!!!!
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We actually have several more feet of snow now…. it’s been an intensely cold winter. You’re welcome to some of the -30 temperatures! LOL
and thank you for the kind words 🙂
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Well, the kind words were easy, but I’ll take, oh, 2 or 3 feet of snow and about 30 degrees ABOVE 0! 😀
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