Old Man Crow’s old grey denim jacket needed more mending
the denim is over 30 years old and getting very thin, perhaps lace developed as an elaborate form of darning
lace as a timeline
the sleeves are getting quite ornate
an ongoing story of love over time
joining hearts and hands around the world with Jude Hill’s Mending Bee
how mending becomes lace with time
Posted: December 3, 2016 by Mo Crow in It's Crow Time, LaceTags: lace, mending, the never ending jacket, thread
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It's Crow Time 
Ongoing . . . going on. The best story there is.
this one will take the rest of our lives
A quiet and warm smile is winging its way across the Tasman.
(((Wendy & Uschi)))
Constellations of cure.
mending the world with our hearts on our sleeves one stitch at a time
Mending, better then new because love is put in it, love and time……………….
(((Martine))) this is one of the most beautiful things that goes with getting old, the patina of time worn in with so much love
And how seams become shibori … love watching this jacket continue
It will be all lace held together with wrapped seams and edges by the time we’re really old!
i love how this can happen. something conjured from holes.
it’s like growing love
❤
The spider weaves to catch her supper, and you weave to hold together what was caught long ago. It’s the same sort of motivation-hunger and love. Elementary.
(((Michelle)))
What a tender transformation. What if culturally people were seen to become more and more beautiful as we age, fall apart, and mend ourselves…
becoming beautifully gnarled like old trees
lucky man with a coat like this
he wears it well
It has it´s own beauty – like getting older….
holding each other together
Hold on together! This is full of love and true beauty
(((Susi))) I love this circle of cloth conjurors!
I can’t add a thing to all the beautiful reflections above Mo – but my heart is nodding in time with them all…
(((Fiona)))
Gorgeous jacket Mo. Cloth and people do seem to grow softer with age. My love of mending started as a child. My parents mended everything. Nothing was thrown out until it was no longer able to hold together with use. At 16 when I met my now Beautiful husband, one of the things that impressed me, was his mending his slippers!! We are still mending everything, including our 1982 Mitsubishi van. Marg ox
(((Marg))) Mike is a treasure we are trying to keep our 2002 model Mitsubishi van on the road for another year but rust never sleeps as Neil Young sang all those years ago!
Well, of course, I just LUV this mending, Mo! I have been eyeing my old man’s jeans jacket, but I’d probably get too carried away for his taste. Also enjoyed seeing the pictures of your show–so cool! Wishing you a happy holiday season! best, nadia
(((Nadia))) this has been the best year ever & re your good man’s jacket mending, now that your he’s retired he may well allow himself to let his hair down!
it is a poem of cloth
it’s a love story