A Deeper Place.
Still settling into it.
Here I played with the Stacked Running Stitch in a new way.
It is harder for me to make videos these days, but the tension management here is really something I would like to show and talk about one of these days.
I did not stitch round and round here on the spiral. I stitched straight through and across. And I made a doodle first. On the cloth. On a whim. Mumbling to myself...you are going to ruin it.
Instead though, it just got deeper.
Those iron water doodles on the blue, I kept looking at them here. They were deepeners.
And I cut the spiral center out, and played with it as well as the hole left behind. I think a lot of times we do not record the in between moments. Each capable of becoming something. I try to capture them more and more. Because ideas are just a matter of noticing really. Taking time out to consider what might happen. Think about how many times that can happen in a day and we just brush it off because it seems to clutter our plan. Image.
Yesterday, deeper, moved through...
So ok, I will continue opening access on You Tube, maybe organizing, not so much. Maybe make your own playlists, I like that idea.
I absolutly LOVE this particular work of your hands.
The colors, the stitching, the composition, just all of it..
Thank you for sharing!
Happy June, June
thank you!
WOW. I almost fell into it, Like Alice, except for me it’s a whirlpool, not a rabbit hole.
There are many ways.
This whole series is an ever-deepening well. The further I fell, the more awe I felt. Beyond masterful Jude.
Oh, thank you Dana.
Ahh. “”you are going to ruin it”” and not trying something because it might clutter my plan. Those are common thoughts of mine as I’m going along .. Am I in a hurry to finish my plan ? Your experimental spirit is such an inspiration to me. I want to teach myself to play like that. Maybe after I finish the blue quilt ?
Love.
Maybe!
This is deep! I fell in for a while.
Still falling. 😎
Want to swim in that second photo. I keep trying to be brave with the pen, it would ease some thing, but not yet.
Just pretend it’s paper, your ease is already there.
Yes I would like a duggestion of the best pen type you use
I use eithe micron or pitt drawing pens, because I have them. But I have even used ball point pens, ha!
I talked about the Pitt pens here:
https://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth_101/2012/08/supplies.html
think it was john lennon who said, “life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” stitching thru ‘n across with the stacked running stitch feels like weaving to me… what if the thread was hand-dyed with ombre’ color? love the recording of in-between moments…
I’m all over the place, in too msny ways!😂
deepeners … yes, that’s the perfect word for it
and I think of the soft madder-colored cloth that you used years ago, the one that had holes where the black dye had once been … thinking how these iron-water images will someday dis-integrate the cloth, leaving your stitches in their wake … how a whole new way of seeing will open up, a new story to be told
Yes!!!
Oh to live long enough!
Inks high in iron (or some right combination of chemistry) will break down paper too. I’ve been wanting to figure out how to have it happen on purpose, maybe not diluting the iron water? I need to play with this.
Yes, an exercise in poof!!!
This is the place I come for calm….
There’s not much of that in my life at the moment, so I appreciate this place you have created So Much.
🙏
I’m not a calm person, this helps me manage that.
Ha! Same!!
Thinking about memory this morning as I read this and wishing wells…
Mmmm, wishing well, I just fell in.
I am touched — deeply — by your words about the “in between moments” — those unnoticed but essential moments that “we just brush off,” seeing them as “clutter to our plan.” Most of my days seem to be woven of such moments. I have to remind myself that it’s not clutter, it’s Life.
And the roots of the story.❤
Woo-hoo! 😄 Seeing these images made my day. And now I’m off to watercolor class thinking about the in-between moments. Thank you for this … this post of your revelations. Thriving Thursday to you!
Watercolor is so much about that.
Really like the spiral in your center circle stitching 💙
I enjoy seeing your YouTube videos too! I think I’ve watched every single one, and have learned so much!
Thanks for sharing Jude
Loving the idea of expanding this stitch into other forms.
There are so many unlisted videos, eek.
Serendipitous playing has a fresh new meaning…..the stitches are grand…
And it is nice to find you on You Tube. I like that.