Nine for Peace got a binding yesterday.
Odd for me, right (?)... to be so definitive. Considering edge.
But then , it does not mean finished. Just a reference point. Maybe a sense of closure in these crazy times. Still stitching though...at about 27" square now, I consider it a large cloth. It's pinned over a Heart's Path right now. Too look. But it's small enough to be an easy lap project. I need that right now. And it's time for Peace already. Enough.
I will be putting together a newsletter soon. So many things have changed.
Purples are so many things.💟
I’m ever so thankful to your instruction by growing the cloth, the simplicity in going as you wish. Sending peace you find newer energy healing and more of these love drops.🤗
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It’s time for boundaries. We need to show them they’ve intruded on our boundaries of what we will accept. Waaaay over-stepped our boundaries.
I wish I were younger and stronger.
Boundaries must be differentiated between necessary and downright cruel. Physical, emotional, etc. My thoughts, since I was young, asked how did we go from wanderers/hunter/gatherers, to Holy Shit! Get out of my garden? Those are my reindeer! And, now we have: build a wall.
A frame can be a boundary reframed as a focuser in art.
I hope you are mending, Jude. Health can be quite the challenge. I’m glad you’re still stitching.
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This is breathtakingly beautiful, Jude. The simple composition is amazing. This is one of my all time favorites. Amazing…
I am loving the simple space keeping…thank you. Still some stitching to do.
That is exquisite, Jude. And I’m sure however it chooses to grow, will be equally so.
Everything to your own pace is the best way to live. It’s clear that everyone will be here waiting your next missive.
All in good time…
Borders are hugs maybe? Hugs and love belong everywhere they’re welcome.
Glad to see you here today and I’m looking forward to the newsletter, at your leisure.
Have always referred to binding ragged style as a hug, so yes, fits here right?
That’s probably why my mind went there- I got it from you. 😀
Well maybe it’s universal…the hug.
Jude~ Sometimes we do just need to be held while we regain our center in the 4 directions. A quietness here.
I hear you.
I could spend all day sitting with and contemplating your underlined words with your thoughtful meanings. Thank you for that gift of a rabbit hole rescue.
I really need to work on that glossary, so much more to add. Thank you for saying.🤎
I’ll just say ‘go steady Jude’ there has to be light after these dark times.
Hope we live long enough.
The bound edge…yes, unusual for you, but things are so different, so unsettled now. I love that the edges around Nine for peace are reaching though…a balance perhaps.
It is “hug” style, that is not turned, ragged on the inner edges.
Still adding to that reaching.
I think maybe many of us are feeling rather ragged on the inner edges!…and a “hug” is such a great antidote 🫂
This little big cloth says so much 💙
Little big cloth, love that.
Gives time to pause and check our bearings. Where’s north, south, east and west on this rocky ocean? Borders giving balance and a sense of peace – yet the arrows allows movement in whatever direction calls to us. Thanks Jude.
A beautiful PEACE (piece).
very much a path finder
Soothing colors. And, yeah… enough already 🙁
really, I am becoming really stirred up
I love the Amethyst…Spiritual, really. Deep. And Quiet.💜
I went looking for this one, strangely.
Jude, I like the thought that edges hold……and it makes me think of a phrase I cut out last week…”at the edge of the ocean “. With the ocean, the holding is really fluid and giving. The edges of the ocean are giving…🌊
the edge of the ocean, how beautiful that is
Leslie~ The edge of the ocean…so dreamy and full of promise. Thanks.
Beautiful.
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Beautiful and intuitive.
Also, a confirmation that a desire lives deep within your journey to continue.
Setbacks and change have a way of forcing us to return to our “center” in self preservation. It shows Hope .. not.. surrender.
Glad to sense this in your welcomed messages.
Prayers.
yes, it has all been a kind of renewal
such a hopeful comment! it’s inspiring to hold on even in these times when much has been sullied.
Beth~ Love this comment ❤️
The depth in this piece is beautiful and quiet. I’ve done so many bindings just like this. Thank you!
a deep pool of hope
love the squares within a square within a square within a square… like looking thru one portal after another. a sense of limitless timelessness… and peace… x
the ripple effect
Thinking about binding as holding, edges are so real.
edges are so much, so much to consider.
The sunny center, surrounded by colors of mourning, tells me the center will hold. Feathers and the swirling border tells me change is near even if stormy. It’s good to hear from you again, Jude.
thank you for sharing these thoughts
Change is the only constant. ❤️
good thing, we need some change
TRUTH!
Really love how this seems to radiate and hold all at once.
safe and open
It’s the dots outside of the nine that catch my eye…expanding the border of the nine and making the whole piece inclusive. Something so simple that brings it all together.
I have more to add to that field
YES, YES…seeking peace in whatever way or form.
Gotta be a way.
This current piece is especially striking, I feel very drawn into considering the quiet.
it evolved unexpectedly…
The binding really adds something. And I get the size — larger but keeping it small enough to lap quilt.
That pattern creates a liquid edge.
Right now the size is big enough, exactly.
Yes, I thought it was fringe till I zoomed in.
Ha!
Peace of the gentle swirls to you. 💜
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I wish you Peace. Your lap project is beautiful and inspiring.
I wish everyone peace while stitching
the gray as binding is so soothing right now. i have always wondered about that fabric with all of the swirls and cloud shapes and what were the designers trying to say in the design.
piece says peace.
it’s a storm cloud motif from Indonesia, seems to fit anywhere.
I find myself drifting back and forth among all the things I like to do in my studio. At 68 years old, I’ve finally learned that perfection is not my goal but joy and peace are. Now to get over that twinge of “guilt ” or the “shoulds” to “complete” whatever it is we are working on. Oh the baggage we carry throughout are lives. I’m learning from you to just be!
it just seems to feel good to be swimming in the larger ones right now…
the baggage yes, let’s lighten up.
Wonderful piece 💙
I like the binding holding it…
surprised me really.
Oh i really like this piece/ peace!
Calm and soothing. The light part in the middle, a little like hope.
Hope you are recovering well, taking the time it needs.
Peace
Oops.wrong place🤦🏼♀️…again
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Yes, it was just a little patch of hope for a long time.
Love it!
I have not a clever answer
Love
clever is too much of a plan. ❤️
As my kids say when they agree with something….
100% for PEACE
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yes