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Grab on to it

August 23, 2021 by jude

Pfffft. No Big Wind really. But Big Rain, 28 hours of it, so far. There was only one sunflower, one biggish one, to survive the deer. She collapsed in the big rain and the only decent wind gust, early on. But here she is this morning. It is still pouring. Yesterday was dark. I needed a lamp to stitch. Just small cloth. Wondering why I just didn’t continue the quilting on Heal. But again I found myself form chasing. Some […]

Categories: CLOTH WEAVING, components, Looking, SMALL CLOTH, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING, weathering a storm

The lighter side of me

August 20, 2021 by jude

The romantic, optimistic part of me comes from my Mom. She was the happy, Winnie the Poo, Pie in the Sky person in the room. Always reminding me that everything is going to be all right, that folks are basically good, that tomorrow is another day. Probably I didn’t really buy a lot of what she was selling all the time, but seriously, Pie Eyes can make the difference in a day sometimes. Good medicine. And my ,my, could she […]

Categories: bundle dyeing, DYEING, Garden, joy, LIFE AND STORY, Mom and Dad, What if (?)

Leaning into the Day

August 17, 2021 by jude

I like this double form. The double wishing star. I am thinking it might work for many things, a compound nested symbol. Something framed by itself. It gives the form a kind of depth. Perspective. Personal symbols are a picture language and life is complicated.

Categories: framing, LIFE AND STORY, Soul-o, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs, wishing star

Both Sides Now

August 13, 2021 by jude

I am happy to see so many bees. I look forward to next year’s garden now that I am a bit more familiar with what will grow here. Rain barrels are the next project. And maybe an ark… just sayin’… The red line is drawn. Stitched. Pressed into the cloth, It seems the beginning of a basket. I sense so many here already. And the line came through. I had spread it on the floor, to look. Covered in cat […]

Categories: Basket, circle, COMPOSITION, Eyes, field, Garden, Grow, LARGE CLOTH, LIFE AND STORY, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs, the other side, THOUGHT CATCHING, What if (?)

Coming Around

August 12, 2021 by jude

Humid, way hot, yet turning. The light begins to seep through the tired foliage. We are opening to autumn. I am back to the circle that I drew on Grow, tracing the edge of the round glass table it sits on. Maybe it just defined my current reach. Now red, like a ring of fire.

Categories: centering, circle, COMPOSITION, direction, dividing space, dots, drawing on cloth, edges, Grow, Season, split backstitch, STITCH, Symbols and Motifs

Considering Form

August 10, 2021 by jude

Yesterday’s Heart was so Sure a piece in the ever growing Sanity series that suddenly came together just yesterday. I went back to find a loose note to self I remember so clearly. But I can never find exactly where it is kept. So I wrote it down again. Because I am right here, today, chasing it in a new way and also trying to redefine how heart is slowly becoming a personal symbol apart from the mainstream sugar. And […]

Categories: COMPOSITION, design mending, Heart, natural order, PATCHWORK, Reconsidering, Sanity, Symbols and Motifs, THOUGHT CATCHING

Three Deep

August 8, 2021 by jude

I placed my Deep Pool of Thought over a Nest of Days so I might Reconsider Freedom. Gee, that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? From the side, Three cloths deep, but many more moments… It became a Medicine wheel Basket. In my mind. Not a shield but a deep pool of holding some sort of personal order. And acceptance. Of what might be but maybe never will be. And I can rest in that, the imagined. The form that arises if […]

Categories: Basket, COMPOSITION, Deep Pool of Thought, layers, Looking, Nest of Days, Symbols and Motifs, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING, walls

We Try to Understand

August 7, 2021 by jude

My hands, clasped. In case it isn’t immediately obvious. When we get up close, things transform. The change in perspective always interests me. Especially when you seem to lose what you are used to as the big picture. I took this picture to explain the stitches I took (skitch skatch) , this time to integrate the surprising yellow cloth with the silk self base. Whether or not I explain, a form results from what I might be thinking. In this […]

Categories: COMPOSITION, edges, SKITCH SKATCH, story, Stray Selves Series, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING

A Natural Occurrence

August 6, 2021 by jude

Sometimes new form is difficult. Not the birth of it, I think that just happens. The acceptance of it. That is often blocked by our choosing NOT to show it. I don’t know about you but I can say in all honesty, audience is a factor. Well, after all my years I know in my heart that is probably always true. There is a need to share, but we shape it. So new form is rare. Because it isn’t easy […]

Categories: Beast, COMPOSITION, direction, Naming Things, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, story, Stray Selves Series, Symbols and Motifs, sympathetic evolution

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