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I finished my Inner Wolf Potholders today.  Some are already sold, but I do have four for sale in my Etsy Shop.

These Potholders speak to the wolf inside of us. Some howling, others having the ability to see clearly who and where we are in our lives.

I used this wolf fabric, which came from scrubs that Lynn sent me a couple of years ago, as part of the backing on my Crow Red quilt.  I made the potholders from the pieces I had left over.  I had no idea at the time how much these wolves were speaking to and for me. Telling me what I was feeling inside.

I hope they speak to some of you too.

Each  Inner Wolf Potholder is $20 + $5 shipping for one or more. You can buy them in my Etsy Shop, just click here.

It came to me as I was designing the last potholder.  That’s when I knew that these were not just Wolf Potholders, but Inner Wolf Potholders.

That’s why the fabric spoke so loudly to me when I just had to use it on the back of my Crow Red Quilt.

It was my inner wolf howling.

Although not all the wolves on these potholders are howling.  Some are seeing and some are patiently waiting for just the right moment.

I have ten Inner Wolf Potholders that I’ll be finishing off next week.  When I took a picture of them all together, the colors were so off I decided to just post a few of them for now.

One of each, Howling, Seeing, and Patiently Waiting.

When I used the wolf fabric on the back of my Crow Red Quilt, I had some pieces left over.  Even then I knew I would use the scraps to make potholders.  I also knew that the wolves wanted some pink.

Yesterday I started piecing some Wolf Potholders together and I continued today.

I have seven done and fabric for one or two more. I’m going to have to think about these a bit. I keep thinking that if they were paintings they’d be good ones. Maybe with softer lines though.

Like a collision of worlds and realities that somehow work together.

I started making my Hare and Moon Potholders the day after the full Wolf Moon.   I don’t remember if I spotted the hare first or the moon.  But they wanted to be together.

It was only after I made them that I googled the words hare and moon and found the many myths from all over the world about them.

Some are similar but others are vastly different.  Many have to do with how the hare ended up in the moon.  Others are about the sacrifice of the hare.  Rabbits are a good  meal for many animals including us humans.

For me the Hare and The Moon feels like a winter story. Which I tried to capture in my potholders. I haven’t decided on which myth I like best yet.

I have four Hare and Moon Potholders available.  They are $25 each + $5 shipping.  You can see them all and buy them in my Etsy Shop, just click here. 

It came together over the past two days.  As I was working on my Spirit Owl quilt, the hare showed up. The moon and snowflakes came next.

And today as I worked on them I thought of yesterday’s Wolf Moon.   And I was sure there was a myth, a story of the hare and moon.  Not that I was familiar with it, but I must have heard mention of it at some point.

So I googled it and there was more than one story.

So many cultures have their tales of the hare and the moon.  Sometimes the hare lives in the moon and other times the hare sacrifices itself or it is a tale to explain how a Harelip occurs.

That made me think of Prue Sarn, in the book Precious Bane By Mary Webb.   Born with a cleft lip in England in the early 1800s, Prue is heroic in navigating the world she lives in.  She was one of my heroes when I was in my early twenties.

I designed ten Hare and Moon Potholders today.  I have them all done by next week and put them up for sale in my Etsy Shop then.

Thanks to Nancy, Carolyn, and Lorry for the fabric that went into making these potholders (hope I didn’t leave anyone out).

That dog looks like the one from “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” and there’s a Benji dog, I thought.   That’s how I figured out what kind of dogs were in my potholders.  One looked like, Dr. Fariello’s hound dog. There was Lassie and the big white dogs that live outside and watch the sheep on the farm we pass on our way to Albany.

Thinking of Zinnia and Bud, I called the Irish Wolf Hound and Daschund, Big Dog, Little Dog.  But there was only one I couldn’t identify, that was the big white dog with floppy ears.  So that one became White Dog Potholder. 

Kathleen emailed me and reminded me that she sent the linen towel with the dogs on it. “A MUCH better use for that wrinkly tea towel,”she wrote,
“This pleases me. All the doggies going to better homes!”

So if one of these doggies belongs in your home, (Fate and Bud excluded)  you can buy them in my Etsy Shop. Just click here. They’re $20 each and it’s $5 shipping for one or more.

And all my magnets are still on sale for $1.  Makes it easy to add to your potholder order.