Begin To Weave.........

Guess what I've been doing on the loom?  It's been ages since I was able to actually warp and dress my rigid heddle loom and I'm so happy to be weaving again.  Lots of things in life have [kind of] taken me away from my beloved hand crafts and home crafts and even music.

...but we persevere, don't we?!!!

All acrylic and its intent is going to be -- not sure what it is going to be.  It could be for a table runner or maybe even some external cloth for some other sewing work.  I just simply need to weave it first and get that part going.  In time, I'm sure, it will tell me what it wants to be, or even what it WILL be.

For the weft, I started looking toward either a solid green or a solid brown.  This variegated blue reminds me so of the ocean and so, I began thinking something to make it appear to be the shore.

What I love most is that crossing a variegated with a solid makes a perfect result.

I chose to go with both.  After testing one and then the other, I thought to myself that this would look lovely if I tried both.  I decided that I loved it.

"Begin to weave and God will give the thread."

This little card was a gift from a friend, Pia, which belonged to her mother, Elona, who was also a friend.  Pia thought of me after Elona passed away and gave the little card to me as a token.  I cherish it and all of my weaving projects after just a few picks have since had their picture taken with this precious little conglomeration of words.

Universe. Time. Mankind.

Speaking about new beginnings.

The world was created and mankind happened.

This is evident, of course, in the first of the Torah portions now moving forward in the new cycle.

In some sects of Judaism, we are taught that Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of the world -- the new year begins at this time -- and it's definitely easy to think of that as we enter a season where everything is now coming to rest and we are bundling into a cocoon and getting ready to re-emerge in the Spring. 

From the first utterance of "let there be light" we have known the world around us:  morning and evening and all of the happenings between evening to morning and then evening to morning again; Shabbat; visuals in the heavens to give signs, seasons, years.   Universe, Time, Mankind.

It's all really simple when you look right at it.  

This is how the Kabbalah works.  Sefer Yetzirah is based on the very same creation which made our world, inward and out.

WE -- mankind -- were forgiven after Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which imparted wisdom for the rest of mankind to know.  The Eternal allowed mankind to live, but, to live, we were to work hard and suffer and actually make use of the knowledge we were just given.

In a modern textbook form of what was passed down orally through the generations, the Sefer Yetzirah gives us the understanding of the world -- the universe and the people within it and how we go about our lives day-by-day.

Thirty-two paths:  

10 Sephiroth

3 Mothers

7 Doubles

12 Singles

New Beginnings

What a better time to begin a new beginning -- several new beginnings!!!

I indicate "new beginning" more to include "re-beginning" or "starting over."

The High Holy Days are done and Succoth is underway.  The first Torah reading of the cycle, Bereshit, will be the Torah portion for next week -- and it all co-incides with the first day of the week:  Sunday!  We are in the time of year ruled by Mother Alef, the ancient one, the beginning -- the first.  What better inspiration do I need to set off on step 1, square 1 -- for everything?

...to re-start and continue blogging about my journey on the harp -- always a life-long learner, but, to also share what I've learned to play and also what I've learned how to do -- technically.

...to re-start and continue sharing the handmades that I use to share years ago -- but, in a new fashion.  So many different crafts -- and sharing helps me continue on as each project is its own journey.

...to re-start and continue sharing the bits and bobs of the cookery and candy-making.

...and stamp collecting, and cats, and travels, and events, and just plain life observances -- especially since we ain't getting any younger -- and happenings about what may be worth writing.  Ain't that what blogging is about?  'used to be; 'will be again???

...just a simple blog/website, but, what I used to share in what seems a life WAY passed by; it's time again...to begin again...and at the right time.