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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

Loose but Connected

August 2, 2021 by jude

Yesterday looser

Categories: COMPOSITION, design mending, drawing on cloth, Loose Pages, REAL JOURNAL, story, THOUGHT CATCHING

not quite

May 17, 2021 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

Memories

May 5, 2021 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, NEWS, story, Yesterdays

Who Knows?

March 23, 2021 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: NEWS, story, Technology

Travel Well

March 19, 2021 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 […]

Categories: Cloth, fringe, Heart, story

Shift

March 9, 2021 by jude

Change is constant, but shift, a sense of evidence, becoming apparent sometimes suddenly although it is just a sign of something slower. There are so many pieces of me here. A pathwork, a moon, magic, fringe, the skoodle, selves, basket, waves, the square, cloth weaving. Fire. The beast. But today I see signs of shapeshifting. And a small quiet journey underground, out of sight. I’m ready for that. It’s just shift. A word I use a lot but need to […]

Categories: SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, story

Fire

March 4, 2021 by jude

Yesterday’s self. Yesterday has become very handy lately. In naming things. And today a way to reconsider them. I wish I could get back to video, because I need it right now. Still a fog hangs over me. Maybe just remnants of the snow melting. At season’s edge there is confusion as well as relief. And I am feeling all of it. The need to explain is leading me away from a more organized approach to teaching. Moving me back […]

Categories: design mending, fire, RECONSIDERING Skitch Skatch, SKITCH SKATCH, story, Stray Selves Series

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