It's amazing how time goes by and we don't notice it. Today I got scared when I checked my blog and discovered that it's been 2 months since my last post in this community.
The darkness of the blackout that day caught me in the middle of a creative activity and I told them then that I would bring the result. I hope our hostess will forgive me for the delay and for the fact that this time the rock of kindness is not colored. It is naked, in its primeval state and still retains a bit of the sulfur smell of its natural bed in the San Diego River. Perhaps some of the healing properties of those waters will spread into the air of our home 馃槉.
Earlier this year my husband and I hiked through the pine forest near my childhood home and in the middle of the trail I found a horseshoe. Some horse had lost it (like Cinderella 馃き). I thought how far the poor animal must have walked on those steep trails to lose its shoe. I took it with me...it must have had some use.
After thinking a bit about something that I would like to put as an ornament somewhere in my house and in which I could use the horseshoe, I came up with this idea that I bring you today. To make it I had to learn some basic macram茅 knots and I used the horseshoe as a support to tie the cotton threads. With them I wove 3 strings using the different knots just learned (by now I must have forgotten them 馃き).
When I had woven a sufficient length of each, I tied them together with another learned knot. I left a space where the rock would fit with the loose threads and at the end of this I knotted them in the same way as before. I trimmed the excess so that they would all be the same length.
In the reserved space and alternating the threads, one in front and one in back successively, I placed the rock so that it would be trapped between the ropes.
This is how I got this little ornament for behind the front door of the house. Not out of superstition, but the wood finish of the door provided the perfect backdrop for my iron, string and rock ornament...all natural and full of good vibes 馃槈.
I loved the art of threads and knots and found that it can become quite challenging 馃ゴ.
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