nasturtium flowerDearest Hive Tribe,This post is about healing on a holistic and cosmic level which, when it works, can align all aspects of life.beniamino, playing with betty on the other side of the lamppost, outside our house

Dearest Needleworking Friends and Hivers!It has been a very intense week – it always is!! - but this one was particularly hard to navigate, with @vincentnijman and I’s mutual health crises overlapping and meeting together, as we took the Masterpeace remedy, and then had myriad interesting things unfold (which I’ll elaborate on in another post)… Then today, waking up to post my Needlework Monday blog, the chimney needed urgent attention – and we spent the morning closing it, and then tidying up the immense mess. At least one thing is definite, and the rest of the moving of the stove and suchlike is begun… But getting needlework posts posted has been less easy than usual, even if all the parts of it were ready and waiting!

scroll down to see progress on this new red coatDearest Needleworkers and Hive Friends!I’m sitting in the back of my new atelier workroom (the old chapel bedroom), and looking around at the tons of fabrics, colours, textures, possibilities…. Excitement mounting and swirling around my mind and heart. Having the ‘new’ space is liberating, after having worked between rooms, and between piles of clothing, which I’ve been accumulating for the past few years. Trips to the 50c stall in Telese Terme, donations from friends and neighbours, items that have been rejected from our own wardrobes. I am overwhelmed, but super-inspired to be beginning a new phase in which I actually have the Right space, and in which I can work with a certain intense focus on the great abundance that I’ve collected – and to make these interesting-but-not-yet-magical clothing pieces….. into fascinating, funky, comfy and enduring new garments.

So I got up at 4.30 am this morning to organise my asparagus….Well, not specifically, but it seemed as good an occupation for sleeplessness as any, and the asparagi are now happily ensconced in a glass of water, alongside some wild oniony-leek (a staple in our kitchen, currently), and awaiting their fate for lunch later today.

Dearest Needleworking Friends!the ACTUAL colour of the tweed, which my camera epic-fails to interpretI missed the usual posting on Needlework Monday last: it felt good to let things unfold in a non-rigid way this week, even if I do like to make a ritual of Monday’s writing, photographing, posting. It feels more important than ever now, to listen to the subtle ripples of what is unfolding… and work with it, rather than pushing past the signs that we should s l o o o o o o oo ow d o o oo o o o o w n

Dearest Hive Family,It is a bright and sunny day, all the windows and doors are wide open to the light, the gentle breezes, the birdsong and the quiet machinations of the valley going about its business. I’m back in bed, pacing myself as my Beloved suggested earlier, and resting into whatever this dark-at-times, mysterious process is of my health unfolding.