Sunday, March 22, 2020

Progress #34. Try 10 different beading projects

9/10: Medicine Pouch for my Daughter

Been busy gestating a tiny human for the past five months, but this COVID-19 social distancing is leaving me with little else to do but reading and crafts.

I made this medicine pouch for my to-be daughter, Joni. I put the four sacred medicines and a piece of beach glass from Gaspé inside. The rest of its special contents, I will tell her, are up to her.


It is an Eastern Bluebird. They extend their range to Southern Ontario only during breeding season, so I've yet to see one in person, but I hope to, someday. I hope to raise Joni to love birds and the outdoors. We'll see.

I like that I have received most of my beading materials - fabric scraps, beads, threads - as gifts or in trades. It feels traditional. Authentic.