Centering
I've used a glass salad bowl to create a circle here. Glass bowls are great for creating overlays. You can get a sense of where you are in a composition. I left it there for a while. To feel the centering. I needed that.
the guide
The circle helped me correct the arc for the loose puzzle pieces. I also drew a line using the bowl, even though originally I just needed the guidance. I wondered why I did that and then thought, I must really need this circle...
The basket…..my feeling, being part of the circle
we hold it together.
Beautiful post. It brought up so much for me. My biggest glass bowl is alas too small to span my piece. I love the idea of the unconscious comfort in a circle, and yes in a lot of other elements too! I did not take any of your previous courses, Jude, although I followed your blog avidly. I did not see myself as a person that stitched although I collected cloth for “someday”…then I moved to Maine and retired and now I want to stitch all the time. I’m so grateful that I’m getting this opportunity to participate in this course. Eventually I hope to go back and work my way through all the Feel Free content.
Oh and a lightbulb moment – my garden is a patchwork of plots and my life is a patchwork of activities! Seems obvious now!
everything…
i don’t know how to properly express what i’m feeling right now, hearing your voice and seeing you lay those colourful patches, humbled and privileged having witnessed the birth of this cloth best describe my sensations, the way you let us watch each and every step of the way is awesome Jude
i try but I realize it is more difficult than imagined, I should carry my recorder with me, a lot of thinking goes on in between
Love the circle of patches. I use circles a lot in my art.
there is no escaping them really, we are part of one.
My first thought was “Prayer Flags”. I find prayer flags surprising, beautiful and mysterious. Surprising patches in the sky beautifully wind blown and ragged. A line tethers them to earth as they flutter releasing the mysterious prayers they hold. Hmmm
the circle as a line that tethers, i am thinking about that
I really need this circle too…
i wonder if anyone dislikes a circle.
The newly introduced circle sets the figures in motion in a way I hadn’t seen before.
now that you mention it, it is a nice counter motion.
a banner
ha, that i didn’t think of
love the spin!
always seems to come back to that
Hardly repeating: yep ( though I repeat my mistakes commenting: yep!)
ha
i love this ( :
there is joy!
I like the lady in the yashmack on the left. Her face looks suitably mysterious.
It’s like a rainbow loose patches …. I like it!
Hardly repeating: yep
Wrong place again. My commenting needs mending
starting to enjoy it
yes, there’s hope!
During part 1 I have been working my way through other promised projects and the normal life hiccups. New enthusiasms and a growing sense of time passing. And the thread of your thoughts has been with me. Thank you for encouraging my own thoughts to soften and wander. My subconscious has even slipped some split backstich into my work when I wasn’t looking. Its wonderful to influence each other and even better to trace the source of the influence. Thank you.
Stephanie
I thought of a bowl of stars. Inverted. Like the sky at night. In a field somewhere.
you make me remember a time and place from my childhood