There's no point fighting it. Season. It's still snowing. It even snows when the sun comes out. Little by little it becomes deep. Deeper.
Outside the door this morning. The front porch.
I am looking for some old reclaimed windows that I might use to enclose this small porch. A spring project. A patchwork, that is how I envision it. Then I can stack some wood here. Right now I am running low and need to get out and pull the tarp off the pile and stack some inside. I think I will wait till tomorrow. It might stop snowing and actually get into the 20s.
A little more Seeming. Fire. It's just on my mind. I will let it slowly generate some images, forms. So they will speak back to me ( and maybe to you) and say:
Keep the Fire Burning
In small moments I continue sorting, looking for needles with bigger eyes because I want to stitch with some fine wool that I have.
I am practicing video again, trying to set up a warm space to work, and get back to the Forever Zone on a regular basis. I feel February, my birth month, will be the new beginning for me. I am called to let a lot of sadness go and to keep the fire of joy burning. I will send out a Zone Newsletter soon. Thank you for your patient support and also thank you to the new folks have signed up. And thank you for all your orders yesterday in the ThreadCrumbs Shop, much appreciated...
Comfort of warming the heart and hands around the fire…
…Time…
Take care.
Time is a kind of food.
Glad you have the powdery snow…wet snow can be so much more challenging. Love the different sized stitches around the heart.
Powder is definitely easier, and it drifts!
I used to have some needles I used for beading that had a long eye almost the length of the needle. The needles are very slim; I don’t know if they would work for your yarn and wool working but might be worth a try. I think they were just called Big Eye Needles.
I like that name. We’ll see, a new adventure. A bigger needle makes a bigger hole in the cloth too
Sadness is a tricky beast but you are a spiritual warrior up for the work ahead. Please know that my hand is at your back. ❤️
I have never admitted to being sad. Maybe I have never been caught in it. I am on a new course. I appreciate your hand.
Flora MacDonald needles! I have a packet which was made in Reditch. The needle town in Worcestershire. UK.
I am now in Mallorca and can only find Prym or chunky no label needles. Thanks for all your sharing.
For some reason I had a lot of different kinds of needles packed away in an old jar, thought I had lost them. I love the packaging.
the creative fire within definitely needs “tending”. (archaic meaning: to wait on as an attendant”) being so quiet, it’s easily overlooked. living in a forest, we must tend to many things. but during my time spent in your cozy, round cottage, the creative embers come alive ‘n soon a blaze of inspiration emerges. i read your posts ‘n comments multiple times. often it’s your visual image that resonates. thanx for being here, jude. x
Thanks for stopping by!
I’m starting to shiver hundreds of miles away in Hawaii just thinking about ‘running low on firewood’. I like you to have too much firewood – because what if it doesn’t stop snowing or even snows more? Good thing Soul-O is there to help. (keep you warm)
I have wood, I just need to wade through the snow to reach it 😂
“I am called to let a lot of sadness go and to keep the fire of joy burning.”
This speaks with such resonance to what has been stirring in me, taking form, day-by-night-by-day as the old year ended and this new one begins. It’s time. Thanks for this.
Lovely hearts taking shape toward some unknown destination …
All this snow is so cleansing…
going without knowing is so refreshing.
I think I will clean my carpets in the snow tomorrow.
Wishing you luck in your new home. I love the look of your new place. Stay warm and take care.
Birthdays come too quickly these days. I’ve decided to start aging backwards lol.
Hey Deanna!
Days, years, gosh, a blur really, meet you back at the beginning, 😎
Jude~ Funny how one word can mean such different – opposite things to folks…”fire”.
Stay warm.
The fire inside takes such a different form.
So happy to read you are begining to feel like HOME is growing around you. We built two walls of used storm doors, screens included for ventilation or not. It was like a glass house, miss that spot. Snow coming to the south, yeah!
Screens would be good!
I bet your boy would be happy to bring in your stack of firewood 😉 🔥🏡
Yeah, he’s working right now, I’ll call him later…
Ice for you, fire for us here in SoCal. Seems like a season of hopelessness ATM here.
Seasons change… looking for it.
Yeah, it so awful…hard to imagine, we’re gonna need new skills…
It’s been so cold here in Vermont. Not much snow. Will be with you as you let go of the sadness. Stay warm and enjoy the deep winter.
Glennis, I was hoping you’re doing alright. Thinking of you and the surrounding tragedy.💔
So many extremes are present at the same time.
Thinking of you Glennis ❤️
Soft warmth and comfort to you dear Jude, from Wales.
I have found that when the loss and grief moves on through, the joy follows naturally. May it be so for you, lovely one. Sending love..x
Yes, like season ☆ I agree, there is a natural order to it all, if you keep going.
The items in your shop are inspiring me to create twelve moons for 2025. I’m thinking of paint stick on cotton scraps, but may consider silk scraps.
The moon is always an inspiration!
I like that about winter. It forces you to stay put and just do whats really necessary.
Food
Warmth
Stitch
That heart is glowing!
Ooops,
wrong place for new comment 🙃
Any comment anywhere is just fine.
Yeah, me too.
Some days I need a simple reminder that it is alright to listen to messages from others. Today, ‘deepening’ is perfect. mkpa
It’s so big, deepening, it fits to everything.
I am in love with Tulip brand needles. I hope you and Soul-O stay warm.
I have some here, I don’t pay attention much, I don’t know how I accumulated so many, mostly gifted. We are warm enough…
Jude, you may know this, but one way to get soft, thick yarn through a needle that is sharp & has a fairly large eye is to wet the yarn end with FrayCheck. Squeeze the wet end flat and when it is really dry and stiff, snip it at an angle. If you don’t have FrayCheck, some thinned Elmers glue can work too, just rub the flat end as it’s drying to squeeze out the excess.
Ha, the glue trick is great!
They are frozen. They are as if untouched. 🍀
❄️
Several inches here of Wintry mix. Snow showers, sleet, snow 🌨️ cold, but not too cold.
My dog went out to eat the snow, seeming to marvel, and then wanting to be dry.
Your stitched heart is quite warming…
Wet snow is worse for me, too heavy.
Keep warm! I like the idea of the porch to store wood.
I did some stacking there but the rain, snow and wind, well, not good.
Hope the turn into February is indeed marked by letting go of sadness. Sometimes these things have a rhythm of their own.
Yes, I think we can respect that and get through it like we do season.
Our snow seems to have all blown away and evaporated. Still a thin layer, but not much. More coming this weekend. Warmth to your heart 🧡
It’s crazy here! At least it’s the powdery kind!
Yes, that is a real blessing!