Frogs are a fine symbol of forgiveness!
November 15, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under weaving and handweaving and looms
One of the many things that I love about the fiber arts is that they are sooooooooooo forgiving.
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You can make a right proper
hodgepodge of most things
‘fiber artery’,
and mostly,
not booger the blazes out of the yarn.
And the best part is…
with most of the fiber arts
(except for tatting, which
is lametably un-rip it rip it rip it-able)
you can ‘frog’ that
messed up project
right back down to it’s yarnie little zero state, and start all over again, no harm done, kiss and make up and better luck next time!
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I did some
serious ‘frogging’
today…..
‘rip it rip it rip it’
(ribbit ribbit=frog it).
Several years ago,
I wove a couple of
boring, bland, unlovely
3 inch wide weft faced bands.
Why?
I have absolutely no idea.
Obviously, I recognized that I had gone off the rails, because I cut the warp off the loom, rolled the poor misbegotten mess up and stuck it away in a drawer.
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I’ve been working on
a ’stash buster’ piece,
and have busted my stash
quite effectively.
As I was rooting
around the studio,
convinced that I had
more #10 crochet cotton
in my stash (I am sure I do!
WHERE did I put it? ack!)
I discovered the horrible
roll of pathetic weaving.
Most sane people would have tossed it.
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Not me.
Nosirreee….
I wanted stash busting cotton,
and by gum,
stash busting cotton was right at hand,
although,
it kind of got out of hand
every once in a snaggly while,
as I patiently, obsessively
un-wove the bands (there were 2 of the dadgummed things!
I ask you…. what ever possessed me?)
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Anyhow,
with patience
and persistance,
and yes,
a whole bunch of
forgiveness,
I have ended up
with some
deliciously enticing
cotton, just beckoning
me to play with it.
And, no, I will not be making a frog with it.
Yes, frogs and frogging are definitely a wonderful metaphor for forgiveness:
After all, how often do we get a second chance to weave something new from the tatters of an old mistake?
Sure, it might have knots and wavey bits, but those are just a reminder that we can indeed let go of our ‘oopses’ and make something new, in a new way. Here’s to forgiveness!
