As imagined, back here, making that small cabin bigger in some different way...
There were, already, 5 scraps "cabined" together. That left 4. OK. Perfect. A frame, cabin style. As opposed to my regular Frame of mind method.
Like this. Framing is so interesting. Sometimes we do it without thinking about it as part of composition.
This seems a good time to open a link to one of the posts I did in Small Cloth. Little Windows.
I guess I will continue with cabins through February. As a side note, just to say, when working foundation style, I often piece the foundation as I go as well. Easier. But let's talk about that later.
Somebody needs attention.
Thinking about dark and light and then Soul-O and noticing the contrast of dark and light on him. Not the black and white of his fur, but the “black” colors of sunlight and shadow. Also how the patch looks good on the light background, but the dark background makes the heart really standout.
What is so interesting here is the contrast between the center cabin made with classic running stitch, then this addition with torn edged lapped seaming. Love this juxtaposition Jude. You are so clever, inventing as you go…..
yes, the contrast is a kind of reminder somehow, about the ways of holding.
have you ever noticed how cats can be sooo subtle – yeah, right – love you sharing a “SOUL-O moment” – reminds me of my blk/wht sweetie – Bandit just walks over and plotz her butt on the keyboard and gives me this “and what’s your problem???” look…
he is so so close by lately.
lapped seams…siding on a building or lapped dovetail joints or waves lapping on the shore or? Just thinking. 🙂 I have coffee dyed fabric for the same reason. Ah well, it makes a nice soft brown.
yes, lapped, so natural really.
I dipped in walnut to increase the tannin. I think I will play.
Love those frayed edges!
Yeah, something so familiar about fray.
Oh how I love these little lessons Jude! It’s like a whole new beginning to my stitching life. My whole patchwork past has been about quantity and how many squares I can finish today and now I feel the cloth I listen to the thread pulling through the fabric and so much more. I’m so excited to watch and learn, it’s like the symbolic mud has fallen away from my eyes! Thank you..
It’s a bit like beginning again for me too. Very comforted just to know your joy and to be continuing.
love the idea of alternating the dark ‘n light frames… what if the frames not only got smaller as they spiralled, but also gradated in value? wondering if that gradation would help to differentiate between alternating clockwise ‘n counterclockwise spirals as well…
Each question a potential form.
Yes the framing hug looks wonderful 💙
a comforting process.
Oh, Soul-O!! Those eyes just speak volumes, don’t they!? xoxoxox
Love the “magic framing” idea!
Maybe I will try that with my cabin block….hmmmm….
If the Spring day doesn’t suck me right out the back door again!
Oh! So beguiling…(I hope winter stays AWAY now….)
we are on snow watch today.
But really it will be too warm to stay.
i love how you have all these thoughts.
i can just sit here, first thing in the morning and be uhhhh,
blank
like a frame with
nothing in it
and count on you
I have to get them out or feel heavy.
I remember that post from Small Cloth. Back when I was really getting going on squares. Thinking about why log cabin feels so intriguing – maybe because it is a “compose-as-I-go” approach. When I make squares, I mostly put them in a pile and compose later when I have a stack.
Yes, though some folks plan them. But then hey, you can compose with just loose scraps too. Maybe not cabins but freeing.
I find the puzzle pieces and the loose scraps handy in different moods. Maybe we can combine them?
lol love Solo, priorities
I do like framing- very comfortable
framing is a kind of hug…
yes it is, never thought of it like that, I like it
There is a kindness…