by jude
Story I have been thinking a lot about story. And probably I will be talking about it more. A while back I created a story cloth that I called In The Same Boat. It is no longer with me here. Yesterday, suddenly another story began. Not In The Same Boat. I guess depending on your perspective, both stories could be true at the same time. Alone. We all can feel it. Even when we are not alone. Just like together. […]
Categories: just going, SMALL CLOTH, story, Stray Selves Series
by jude
Selves, the basket, considered yesterday and the beast, consistently part of my story building. Because they are me, the character. I wonder how it is that we come to tell stories that we are not part of. Can they actually be true without being there? Is that like playing telephone? Suddenly growth. I looked at the potted plants this morning. A few cuttings brought from the old place. A few things rooted and potted up from groceries. Those avocados are […]
Categories: story
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
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
by jude
Yesterday looser
Categories: COMPOSITION, design mending, drawing on cloth, Loose Pages, REAL JOURNAL, story, THOUGHT CATCHING
by jude
Never quite there. I had this in my mind all weekend. Mostly because of how things have been going for me. But then after talking to my son who works so hard and is so tired and is still trying to figure out the best path forward. It was comforting in some way to know that such frustration might span generations and that it’s not just that I am getting old. Life is simple really. It is just complicated. We […]
Categories: Garden, Spirit Cloth 101, story, Yesterdays
by jude
Yesterday’s Moon has become a Memory The old blog let’s call it “Yesterday’s Blog”, is still protected. It is a big part of the story… I am working on restoring access. The best I can. Let it become New. What if that’s it? What we have to work with. And what it all becomes. If we keep going. Scraps of thoughts caught. Story. How with each passing moment we are patching a memory. Mending our backward vision the best we […]
Categories: Liquid Applique, Moon, story, what's happening, Yesterdays
by jude
Quilting complete, quilted with waves, this one called In The Same Boat. Aka, now, The Spirit of Adventure. Are they making waves or riding waves? Maybe both. After looking things over here and a little back and forth with Wordpress help, we have decided I have to change the theme here because the one I am using is causing a problem due to my overcomplicated set up. They say it should be OK but I don’t know what will happen. […]
Categories: story, Technology, what's happening
by jude
Cloth seems to have a memory. The kind we have. But actually cloth does have it’s own kind of memory. Retaining a lot about how it was handled, worn and rescued. Loved. Ha! Like us then… I finally “finished” this one. Because it feels like enough. Even though it seems like I could mend it into being forever. In Memory of our Michelle. I notice how my eyes come to rest after a while, on the Karma-Patch. There is true […]