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  • If there is a common thread here (from post to post), it is to find and explore the intersections between living a full and creative life and having a sustainable lifestyle.
  • Grown in the Pacific Northwest
  • Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009 Deborah Gorr (unless otherwise noted)

John Donne:

  • Because such fingers need to knit that subtle knot that makes us man.

Sweet pea quilt

  • Assembling
    In honor of my grandfather, using fabric from his chambray work shirts.

the dye pot

  • strange soup pot
    Experiments in dyeing fabric with plant materials. Most of these experiments are done with solar heat only.

wool quilt

  • some of the circles
    A quilt made with reclaimed blankets that were holey and needed to be patched.

wool quilt #2

  • green and pink
    Goal: To make a quilt with the top pieced from fabrics that I've created by knitting, felting, weaving, crocheting.

bus projects

  • pair number thirteen
    In June of 2006 I started knitting on the bus. Other than the sweater, all of these projects have been done primarily on my breaks at work or on the bus.

Andrew Marvell:

  • "My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow."

the garden

  • grape plant
    One of my life goals is to grow as much food for myself (and the wildlife) as I possibly can and to keep a journal about the process. Welcome to my garden!

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Recipes that are currently intriguing:

about food

  • brown rice salad
    This is a work in progress. I'm trying to find a way to organize recipes and thoughts about creative cooking.

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Opening up the Wardrobe

What's a girl supposed to do when she loves clothing, has a dress code for work, is losing weight, and is a little hard on clothing (due to job, hobbies, and a dog that chews holes in clothing when she gets the chance) but also cares about the environment and fair trade?  Well, pledge to buy used clothing, hand made or make your own!  For almost two years I made this pledge for  Wardrobe Refashion :

Wardroberefashion_06 I, Deborah Gorr, pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months.  I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of  my contract.  I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovoated, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thrifyness brings! Signed  Deborah Gorr

11/4/08 I'm not currently participating in this pledge, but still value it very highly and am trying to not buy new clothing.  One of my goals for bee creative is to document and explore how to have a sustainable wardrobe.  A wardrobe that I enjoy wearing. 

"When the Moon hits your eye..."

  • CURRENT MOON

Herman Melville

  • "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men, and among these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

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Prayer Flags

  • on cheese cloth
    Blow where they will...

Socrates:

  • "The unexamined life is not worth living."

Food for thought

Something to consider:

  • "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin

Terry Tempest Williams:

  • "Our survival, the vitality of the planet depends on mental flexibility and emotional acuity. Hands raised. Hands put to work. We can improvise. We can create without a map. And we don't have to live in isolation. The gift of an attentive life is the ability to recognize patterns and find our way toward a unity built on empathy. Empathy becomes the path that leads us from the margins to the center of concern."

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