the prayer flag project

I read about this project on the prayer flag project blog

   last summer and I knew I wanted to make some after visiting.

  So  this is what I started on Sept. 11, 2011.

theprayerflagproject.blogspot.com

I continue to make them as time allows and have made them into a take along project after I paint the background fabric .
 they are 5 by 8  inches after hemming top sleeve.

I love to paint. fabric loves to receive it. paint to me is  like vitamin P and i never tire of experimenting with  it with intension or random marks of color.

I have filled in the words, with embroidery threads in a very primitive stitch,

drawn by writing with the blue school gel glue before paint goes on .when paint dries i rinse out glue .

the  finished flags are strung with torn selvages of my hand painted fabrics and knotted together . then hung in the air, over a doorway , along a garden fence, from a tree limb., and when i show them, i clip them onto my old wooden hangers.

hope seems to be the word that surfaces first for me.

 some friends have already stated they would like to make some, together.

a good" all skill level" project.  
what does prayer look like to you?

And what a great way to start a new year.