Maria Wulf Full Moon Fiber Art

“I love the very dark indigo with the lace especially looks very ethereal , deep or cosmic or occult! So in keeping with this time of year as we lean in to embrace the darkness.”  Peg

Like the new moon, I thought when I was rinsing the indigo dye out the vintage hankies in the kitchen sink.  All those deep blue hankies with the most subtle shifts of color.

When I read Peg’s comment on my blog I thought she had it just right.

It’s as if the my scarves embrace the darkness.  But then of course, there are those sparks of light, the stars, a fire in the wood stove.  Or the moon, to pale the darkness when full or cut through it when a crescent.

I made five Indigo Hankie Scarves today.  I didn’t get pictures of them all, it gets darker earlier now and the light wasn’t right by the time I got done working.

But I”ll post My Indigo Hankie Scarves in my Etsy Shop tomorrow.  They’re all about 65″-75″ and are $80 + $7 shipping.

This is one of my Indigo Hankies Scarves.  It’s a mix of solid indigo hankies and some that I tied with string and rubber bands to create my own  non-traditional Shibori designs.

Jon and I have been playing with the idea of merging our blogs for a while.  But it’s only in the past few weeks that we started seriously talking about making it happen.

The original idea was Jon’s, so he could leave me something when he died.  His audience is considerably bigger than mine which would be a great benefit to me.   It would also be a way for me to continue his work with The Army Of Good.

But when we started seriously talking about it a couple of weeks ago (not that Jon has any plans on leaving us soon) it seemed  that it would actually make sense, and benefit us both, as well as the people reading our blogs, to do it sooner rather than later.

It’s exciting to think about, how one blog with both of us posting on it, would create a more wholistic picture of our work and lives on Bedlam Farm together.

We’re coming up with a lot of different ideas,  but what we’re thinking at this point is that we’d use Jon’s existing blog reworked to reflect the two of us.

We don’t have all the details worked out yet, and we still have to talk to the technical people who would make it happen, but we would somehow label each post so there was no confusion whose it was. It’s important for us to keep our individual identities, but that won’t be hard, we may overlap in our writing about the farm, but otherwise we write and take pictures and videos of very different things.

We also have two very different voices.

I would keep my blog in some form so it would still be accessible for me to  link to when I write and for it to be seen.

On the new blog Jon and I can coordinate our posts better.

So when, for example,  I’m stacking firewood or Braeden and I are working together,  and Jon takes pictures and writes about it and I don’t,  it will make a more complete picture of what is happening that day.  Or if I take a picture of Jon and Zip we can just post it once instead of on both blogs.  It would be the same for my Monday Morning Videos.

Also, it’s expensive to maintain two blogs, so we’re hoping this will help with the costs. And we’re hoping it will be easier for our readers so they don’t have to go to two different blogs, but can get both all in one place.

It would definitely be better for me to have my art seen by more people.

When I picture the new blog, it has a feeling of being full and well rounded, more complete.

Yesterday morning, as we lay together in that time between sleeping and waking, I saw in my mind a blue morning sky with two cottony white moons it.

At first I was distressed, thinking the moon is her own unique being in our sky and that having two moons was somehow diminishing.

But that’s not what I felt seeing the two moons, their edges blurred by the morning mist.  They were partners, floating a short distance from each other.    Both soft, like two open palms,  ready to receive and give.