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October 28, 2025 · 12:45 pm

Oracle of Stillness Woven Women- Dreamers part 1

For decades I’ve work with my dreams & use the imagery & information that comes up in dreams .

Even so, there are times that a dream gives me the heebeejeebees. I wake up with my hair standing on end & exclaim: “May this dream never come true for anyone, anytime, anywhere!”.

A dream I had this morning pointed at part of my life that is challenging (health issues) & left me feeling curdled & crumpled.

Luckily, I checked in on instagram after breakfast & found a beautifully healing variation on a Buddhist prayer that I say daily. I love that there are so many variations of it & I thank @fullywoven for posting this prayer just when I needed it most!

The mindfulness of being free from inner harm made the worried parts in me unwind- whew- what good medicine! I am grateful.
Here’s the prayer:

May all beings everywhere be free from all inner and outer harm.
May all beings everywhere be filled with ease and contentment.
May all beings everywhere know and abide in loving kindness.

I am going to be sharing pics of a series of Woven Women mixed media weavings from my Oracle of Stillness series for a few days. The first one is: The Dream Healer.

She appeared to me in my dreams & I loved her. It took a lot of effort to get the face right.

Not long after weaving her & variations of her, I saw images of the Ukrainian Mother Goddess, Mokosh.

I was astonished- Wow! What I dreamt looked very much like the Mokosh figures.

I found this to be inspiring & fascinating. I don’t have ancestral connections- my ancestors are from Ireland, England & Scotland, so it’s another kind of connection.

And, then, closer to my ancestral home, wow-I discovered Dorset Buttons online- more beautiful wrapping techniques to explore!

Thank you to the Dream Universe for pointing me in the right direction & encouraging me to be curious about what I was dreaming.

Sweet dreams!

I’m working on posting all the images from The Oracle of Stillness here to www.tottietalkscrafts.com

Dreams and healing and Crochet Stars

I have worked with my dreams all my adult life. I use the images, stories, and themes that happen in my dreams to shape my art and artisanship.

After my beloved son in law died suddenly from a heart catastrophe brought on by Covid, I had incredibly powerful dreams in which I was able to talk with him and listen to his new stories about his journey after this death.

He told me that I absolutely HAD to write a book about finding my way to hope and grace in living with the all encompassing grief unleashed by his passing…..

I was also having many dreams about Star Babies….. I have been dreaming about Star Babies for more than 30 years… I dreamt, over and over, about how the Star Babies were the most amazing experience of joyous, innocent, contagious and delicious laughter. Dreaming about them and their new adventures was incredibly healing. They lead me to keep finding references to how the stars offer us laughter and connection and hope, which I felt was synchronicity working it’s finest magic.

I was finding so much comfort and solace in my crochet, and talked with my wonderful editor at Stackpole, Candi Derr. We agreed that we can heal our broken hearts with lovingly creating small, but significant things that wrap up our love. And as we talked and I designed, and crocheted, crocheted, crocheted, it became clear that stars were meant to be the metaphor, and pardon the pun, but the STARS of this book.

Of course, I had to begin with the Laughing Stars that evolved from the Star Babies, and that seeded this book, Crochet Stars-

And then, I found all kinds of ways of creating more and more stars….

Some of which act as frames to embrace the memories of those we love, but who now dance among the stars-

And some of whom crossed the Rainbow Bridge, but still live on in our hearts….

I added a little lace to the pupster’s pics, and played with colors on the back of the stars:

It’s lovely to think of them all playing and laughing in amongst and with the stars, and the Star Babies, too!

Crochet Stars is now available from all the online book sellers! Yay! Happy Crochet! ❤

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December 7, 2012 · 11:45 am

Dreaming of color and weaving the vest

Last Sunday morning, I had an inspiring dream.

I dreamt that I was invited to visit the workroom of a friend who passed on awhile ago.

She and I had written back and forth for several years before her death.

I still hold her dear in my heart, even though we never got to meet, face to face, in this world.

Anyhow, in the dream, I was invited into 2 gorgeous little rooms that were full, floor to ceiling, with antique drawers and shelves, full of exquisite handmade lace and yarn, and thread and weaving and embroidery.

It gave me a whole new view of heaven! 😀

I was particularly moved by the colors of one jacket and 2 bags that were woven with a range of reds and blues and then embroidered with yellow silk thread.

For the rest of this week, I have been glued to my loom, and then my sewing machine, weaving a vest that was inspired by the dream.

It has been such an interesting voyage of discovery, as it took me places that I didn’t expect to go, and it had it’s own rules and requirements.

Here it is:

I wove it on my Saori loom, blending the yarns on the bobbin, and adding and picking up strands of weft as I wove.

I knew that I was going to be shaping the vest by pulling on warp strands to add the curves that would build the vest, so I worked at making the shapes of the clasped weft be conducive to the warp pulling process.

I had thought that I would use the narrow band to add another ruffle to the outside edge, but I decided instead, to use it to weave the back of the vest.

This is one of the things I love about Saori weaving- being able to do freeform work that takes off in a different direction than I had originally planned!

I like to shape the garment after I have woven it, so I do my warp pulling after the weaving is off the loom, and don’t do any shaping on the loom.

The butterfly was woven while it was still on the loom.

I had thought that I would embroider lots of dragonflies onto the vest.

I didn’t embroider the dragonflies while it was on the loom, as I wasn’t sure where I would be placing the pulled warp sections, and didn’t want the embroidery to be distorted or to interfere with the pulling process.