Ray Bradbury wrote that books are magic for the ways “they stitc[h] the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” It means the world to me that years into this magical stitching process, new designs keep emerging. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I have the Playboy issue that published an illustrated “Goblin Market.” It makes for an intending discussion lol…

Thank you, she was just the sweetest most special kitty.

The back of the quilt is embroidered with lines from my journal from that period in 2005. amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...

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Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury Quilt
Amy E. Elkins
46 ½” x 58 ½”
Eco-dyed fabrics, cyanotype, cochineal and madder-dyed thread, fossilized snake vertebrae, embroidered cheesecloth, and silk batting.
2025

Last week I used the rainwater to paint watercolors one of my eco-prints. Using a typewriter, I added a quote from Yeats that I’ve been thinking of often lately: “and a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone” Isn’t that just how love feels?

During all this, my senior beagle Oakley had to have emergency intestinal obstruction surgery. She is fine now but couldn’t process losing Aspen either—she’s never known life without her. (She’s on better meds now and getting lots of extra walks).

I wrote an arboreal elegy for Aspen ♥️

It won’t be recorded this time around, but thank you so much for sharing! ♥️