What (if?) was needed.
It's warm here by the fire, while we dream of warmer days.
Today is a really cold dark day. I layered two photos. One of a sunnier day over what I happen to be working on today. Better. One step toward change instead of worrying. I do this in my mind a lot too. Try it. It works for a lot of things, and once the thought takes hold it is food for going. Because when you close your eyes you can see it.
As I prepare to go forward, I need to fix some issues. Expect some changes here on this site, and even some downtime.
I am glad that your quilt is helping you keep the draft out. The holes didn’t bother me, I just thought…all that hand stitching (the time). I wish it was machine stitched. And the sun will do a number on the fibers… But I remember my mom not using things and saving them “for good.” Use them and enjoy them. I can’t believe we are in for another really cold spell. Spring can’t come soon enough.
I’ll take it down soon, replace it with another smaller cloth that I will add to, perhaps testing out a new form that I imagine might be easier to use.
Really bad weather has arrived with lots of ice, I will stay put and dream of spring.
Oh, Jude, I’m so with you. I look around my house & have the thought “nothing owes me anything”. All have served me well in whatever way so if they can carry on in a different form that’s just wonderful. I’m with you, lets be practical & versatile & spontaneous as we get on in life. No more saving things for better/other days.
Today is “the day”.
Yes to all this!
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I get it! Use what you have. You can always applique over it. You’re amazing at that!
hugs,
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👋 there is so much at our fingertips!
Feels like comfort at the end of a tunnel! And SoulO so glad in your daily views! How love grows. Cutie pie! Thought a lot about yesterday’s post too or day before, that hole, it could hold so much. Together we rise up!
Yes. Together. Let’s do it.
I love your thoughts on new ways to look at what you’re doing or making do with. Why not!
I’m repairing a quilt that one of my grandmothers made and she had used a plain sheet as the backing which has become a lot more thread bare. It was all scraps of fabrics in a spool or apple core pattern on the front. I decided it’s so plain on the back why not appliqué on it too because it’s a blank slate on that side. No one’s here to tell me I can’t and I’m enjoying the idea of what could be…Why not! 💕
Oh yes! Do it. That will only make it stronger!
I hate to see the hole but your mending will make it well again..
Happy cat by fire.
All is well!
I was definitely thinking about layers or some strong cotton canvas to reinforce the holes. I was also thinking about some environmental artists leave things in rivers for months, or bury things, and so was thinking how that might be interesting as a collaboration with wind to enhance the tattered quality to the edges of your cloths. Thoughts.
Just in from one round of chipping away frozen snow, got the fire going after emptying ash, now I’m off to chip through snow on the path to the wood shed. Never without chores here in winter, not even when sick!
Yes, cloth weather’s in such unique ways. I pulled this cloth off to the side because it was getting so wet and now it frozen solid with folds. Pics later.😂
The ice here is ridiculous right now. Only to become worse…
Oh, ha.
The double picture is such a beautiful idea. Your stitching makes it perfect. Love this idea. Thank you for sharing. Please stay warm.
I’ve done a few in the past, seems to bring a oneness to the day. It’s warm here by the fire, I’m getting better at it.
Funny how so many focused on the hole (which I saw) and the doorway( which I have to go back and look for if I remember), and all I could see was “OMG how did you merge the scene with the fabric?!? I need to know this!!!
If that’s even what you did…you said you layered 2 photos and somehow incorporated them with a piece you were working on with stitch, I assume?
No this is just a picture of the woods over a picture of what I was working on. Just a photo, but I imagine it could be taken further…
Layering one photo over another. Most photo software will do this, allowing the adjustment of transparency so you can see through. I use Pixler.
Great way to start my day listening to you thinking about this out loud. Love that way of thinking and considering. Thank you.
It bothers the cat sometimes, he looks for who I might be talking to.
🤭 Poor soul-o! My little dog does that too….& tilts his head at me talking too! 😊
Not rambling…creative mental boogie! Yay!
We used fasten our tipi canvas with a round pebble tied in the cloth…then you tie round the pebble….or maybe a large marble would work…or walnut…It would save the ripping of your lovely cloths xxx But I love your necessity becomes use becomes evolving quilt edge…made me think of using old shirt button-hole placket for edge of fabric for joining..fabulous!
Ah, good tip! It was a very rash decision but it brought new thoughts. Shirt placket, yes!
Hello, Jude. 🍰🍨🍫🍀
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And while I was listening to your story of the spools and then creating holes in your quilts ( possibly for hanging…WHAT IF you attached spools to the wall, and made big enough holes in the quilt corners to hang the quilts on the spools)…& I thought about your tying quilts together, a sort of weaving to make them WHOLE…& how it is good to USE and maybe not save all the things….
Love your rambles, Jude…
Happy 💝 Day
Good thoughts! There is always that question my grandma would ask, what are you saving it for?
I like it—‘something that might take “holed” !!’ You know, even if it just becomes a mended hole, it’s what I think of as a souvenir scar. I look at the age spots on my hands, and I could think “yecchh,” but I prefer to see them as souvenirs of wonderful times I had outdoors in the sun. The mended hole in your quilt: what a great souvenir of the resilience that saw you through your first winter in your new home and your new life.
Yes, old quilts can become journals of season…
A lot of my current reading this week is about how we need to have the ability to imagine other ways of being in order to have them happen. What if, curiosity, wonder… And sometimes we just need to take action.
Yes and yes!
What are you reading. I have been pondering how to respond to a changing world with creativity as opposed to complacency or fear.
You can learn a lot about reading from Deb.
I didn’t see the “door” until Jana mentioned it and then immediately the thought of a door through yourself became clear, a protective arch holding it all together? Love your sharing and that of everyone else.
Door is a big imagining… a way to newness.
whatever works! making do! patchwork imitating life… becoming part of it. reminds me of weaving with cloth strips. powerful imagery. the pic of soul-o made my day… x
Cloth can be metaphor in so many ways.
Doorways, seeing them, making them. Food for thought. Brilliant!
Now pondering what doorways I can create for myself and step across their threshold. Thank you.
I dream them so often, but can never remember where they took me.
beauty in use. i love the idea of a sandwich of quilts lashed/strung/’bound’ together on the edges. especially rich edges then.
Yes, right now my blankets are sliding everywhere…
Well, I gotta say it … necessity is the mother of invention … no sadness here
Ha, exactly… nothing new. I feel like my grandmother 👵
The freedom of treating our supplies and work as useful objects. I heard so much liberation in your voice. But maybe it is also as you say, the strength of heritage.
Part of it is the freedom from want.
Not rambling, just talking the way you do…..action, reaction problem solving and making art out of it…..Love it
❤️ you!
I expect the unexpected with you!
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You do what you gotta do to survive 💪
Use and reuse
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So much to work with!