These two create a balance for me right now. Here, this morning, one falling away, the other coming together.
This new one, well, I really wanted these pieces to fit together, all pulled from what I call the big basket of nothings (more about that later) because they seemed good together. The woven part and the stitched part. Not quite a fit in some ways but so much a fit in others. There was lot of maneuvering to give them the order I needed to hold together.
looking
I considered dipping the fringe in indigo. To make the frame in the woven cloth a bit more apparent. I think it might have been swell, and maybe some other time I will try that. It's an idea.
what if ?
But then, here digitally so far, a little design mending made the misfit a little less in focus, and somehow the woven part became like a boat, a safe vessel, holding time still bit yet going.
Love the way your cabin morphed into a boat and held time…
I have attempted a few cabins recently..just couldn’t get that magic going in the bits and pieces i was pulling out …and frustrated about it…and hey..today…something just shifted gear, managed to climb out of my ‘box’..and free flow in a way which pleased me. Just kept staring 😀 at your various cabins without a thought..:):):)…and then something intuitively just slid into place. ( Atleast for now) I am pleased…and thanks:):)
waiting is often a big part of it. I have so many things in process, it is actually hard to know how long they actually take to form. I was out walking in the woods by the river yesterday and I found two small scraps that must have fallen out of my pocket. Threadcrumbs, truly.
love this combo!
what a story it now holds
I guess you have me thinking about how much holding has to do with story.
Yes to incorporating the woven piece into your story cloth!
Which means I have to weave more!
The moon, ocean waves. Pieceful. (That was hard to type — spellcheck wants to think for me)
Ha, yeah, I get that!
I love the lighthearted face of your moon, and my first thought was that it looked like an illustration from a children’s storybook. And the weaving is the icing on the cake!
Wonderlike Jude 💙
The texture of the weaving brings a different kind of life to it I think, can’t believe I just pulled that out of the basket.
💙👍🏻👍🏻
I often find myself pairing unlike sections of things — a quilted three layer section with something not yet backed, for instance. It’s not for the faint of heart.
no but it is building, I love how much I learn in the process.
Design mending. I like that.
when I started to accept design as mending I found the patience I needed.
It always amazes me that you can take something that looks so good and make it even better. ❤️
i always have to keep going till it transforms into a kind of love.
What came to mind is that this one is really ‘special’. Love the combination of it all and that moon face too 🙂
it’s felt a bit like a children’s book illustration and I said ahhhhh
These are so beautiful!!! Love how the weaving has become a natural part of the piece. <3
it’s feeling good how it is all fitting together.
beauty is born from the Joy of Trying
what if.
my therapy.
how piecing, applique’, embroidery, weaving ‘n dyeing can happily play together. the many languages speaking as one. strays, scraps, misfits ‘n left overs uniquely joined together in a beauty-full belonging. love.
comforting , the oneness.
The woven piece went from mountains to ocean for me. Deep night sky over swells of sea … something we don’t see often with our own eyes unless we live by the ocean.
yes, it became both by this holding
Another life boat…
Ha, yes!
I am in love with what is going on here….☺️
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i think it’s working!
I see cat whiskers. And I enjoy your posts tho I rarely comment. Thank you.
glad to know, whiskers! ha!
A sanctuary with the night sky to watch over you. Looking at this gives me a great sense of peace & security.
I am glad you feel it too.
I love the mismatch — just the way things are, no two exactly alike. The strong dark blue is so comforting — framing, holding all the diversity together like an embrace.
yes, embrace, a frame, in the context of diversity, so beautiful.
I am caught in the cabins from weeks ago. Sky cabin has become a bigger story.
The Moonflower called to me. The beautiful symmetry and simplicity. I think of the Japanese idea of Shibusa, the simplicity, implicitness, modesty and silence and naturalness.
At the lake for the summer with these and my indigo vat, very little technology.
Sounds just great!
Love the concept and the doing……great❣️
One thing becomes another!
Wow, Jude. Exquisite blending of stitch-worlds!!
Oneness is a comforting goal.
it’s nice to see it against a night blue skycloth, it makes the vessel float through the night… a dream
It does feel very dream like, thanks for that.
cool
love when things like this can happen.
Loving the safe vessel.
yea, it was suddenly more comforting.
Idea’s & trying go together
yeah, ideas are a kind of trying.