General Updates and Reminder about Setting of Lights
I have a couple of updates that I want to be sure to post before the weekend.
The first, is that I’m offering Setting of Lights on a weekly basis now and will be doing that throughout the year. See more on that here – this is a reminder because the candle shrine opens this Sunday and the weekly deadline for requests is Saturday.
I haven’t fully set things up yet, but I’ll give you a sneak peek at part of my space. Last year a friend gave me this giant candleholder (the thing is huge!) that he’d gotten at an antique sale.
It’s recycled from a church, I think. I absolutely love it and we originally planned to put it outside by one of our outdoor shrines but there was disagreement about where it should eventually go, so it’s been sitting on my porch for a year. Finally, I realized it was perfect for the candle shrine. I need to give it a good once over with rust remover and a good scrub brush but then it is going to be deployed in the shrine room. I have a secondary small table that will go right in front of it to hold more candles and if I can find it, I may have another cast iron candle holder for that table too (I need to dig through my storage room). I plan on having everything up by Friday evening (and thank you to those of you who have already ordered candles). So, if you are interested, please reach out to me at Krasskova at gmail.com.
Secondly, I have reopened my etsy shop. I have a ton of new cards, all of which are currently available:
Irish Deities:
- Lugh
- Boann
- Aine
- Midir
- Sheela na Gig (it’s complicated, I know, but this one was by repeated request)
English/Germanic
- Hrethe (Hreðe)
Roman:
- Concordia
Lithuanian
- Jurate
Slavic
- Lada
Japanese
- Izanami
They’re all up and available in my etsy shop, which y’all can find at the link above.
Finally, I’m working on a new project. It’s a year long stitch journal – I got the idea from this blog (and the author of this blog also offers a PDF and explanation of the project for sale). I plan to do this as an offering for the House of Mundilfari (though I’m doing each month individually and then will sew them together and onto a nice backing after I’m all finished, instead of how the author suggests). After all, They are the Gods Who govern time and our cycles and seasons. It seems fitting and at the same time, the stitch work honors my female ancestors, my Disir. When I’m all done, I’ll be able to create a stitch roll, and I’ll attach a button with which to tie it and voila. I’ll put it on the shrine next New Year’s Day as an offering. Here’s what I have done so far (only five days of course since we’re only five days in) (1). I’ve already chosen the back cloth for February’s piece.
What do all of you have going on devotionally for this month? What goals have you set for this upcoming year?
Notes:
- Space one is the Bayeux stitch, a couching stitch over satin stitch used in the Bayeux tapestry. Space two is just some chain stitch and colonial knots. Space three has tulips and a daisy, and I got to practice lazy daisy stitch, which I suck at lol. Space three is more lazy daisy, and then space five is seed stitch and leaf stitch. In various places there’s also back stitch, blanket stitch, and stem stitch.
Posted on January 5, 2023, in Uncategorized and tagged Art, devotion, embroidery, Etsy shop, Prayer Cards, projects, setting of lights, updates. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
What lovely embroidery! I’ve never heard of a stitch journal before but I think it’s an excellent thing.
This month is quiet; I’m focused on cleansing our little house and setting up the calendar for the new year. I’ve got some beading work to do, for Sigyn, and I need to pick up my spinning again as it fell by the wayside during the holidays and I need to make a special shawl for a friend.
I’m also reading my way back through the Poetic Edda, because I want to spend some time this year thinking about my perspectives on those stories and how it has (or hasn’t) changed over the years.
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I had never heard of it either but I’m really enjoying the process. Spinning—amongst many things, my nemesis. lol. I think it is very cool that you spin. I learned to bead for Hella of all Deities. It makes much more sense, I must say for Sigyn.
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Lol I only have any usable yarn if I use a very long staple length fiber like alpaca right now but I hope to be able to do more accessible fibers like sheep wool well one day. For the time being I’m just enamored of my Turkish spindle.
I’m curious, what makes beading make so much sense for Sigyn?
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A STITCH JOURNAL! I love this idea! Also that candle altar is beautiful!
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I absolutely loved the idea. I am using the templates that are for sale on the site I give in the above post (I don’t know the woman, but she wrote a book on stitching and I found her site through that) but I’m doing a slight bit of quilting with mine. it’ll be cool.
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Recluse, I tend to associate pretty things like beading, textiles, etc. more with Sigyn than Hella. It’s just personal association.
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