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just to see

January 29, 2023 by jude

That’s what motivates me. Just to see. Simple enough. I could hear it. A walk down the hill, just to see how much water has passed through the boundary wall to fuel the ever growing tiny river here. The water that springs up right out of the ground. Probably some digging would encourage more flow, but I would rather just watch this amazing process. Another thin embroidery sample, using a hoop instead of stitching on multiple layers as I do. […]

Categories: Basket, flow, the wrap, thread beads, wandering

dot dujour

January 27, 2023 by jude

Of course, but for the record. One. Instead of many thread beads.

Categories: centering, COMPOSITION, dots, red, Sanity, thread beads

Another red line

January 13, 2023 by jude

I choose red, again. Red line. Edge. Halfway around. About one hour’s worth. Just about. Just to say. The stories are mostly here on the blog. My current teaching/explaining is mostly in the Forever Zone. I will take a few days/tries to shift my video approach and try to get it to where I can continue there with ease. New spot, new editor, old tripod, sky lighting, new mood. And a simplified, to the point, approach. Shorts. Easier. Just showing. When needed. […]

Categories: Grow, LARGE CLOTH, split backstitch, STITCH

Let’s call it a Wrap

December 31, 2022 by jude

Ok. Done, the year that is. It’s been interesting to say the least. Personally, very enlightening in very unexpected ways. I do not feel wiser, I simply feel kinder. Not by connecting. In some sort of standing back way. Perspective maybe. Letting folks be. Practicing forgiveness while realizing things cannot be unsaid. Except by saying more. Wondering how the art of dialog got lost. The last stitches on Alphabet Soup. The Wrap Stitch is actually, or has become my favorite […]

Categories: Alphabet Soup, LARGE CLOTH, STITCH, the wrap

I met U

November 21, 2022 by jude

And here I am, we are. I kept going to complete the quilting all around the edge. I met up with U. And Unicorn. I did a bit of quilting on U while I was there. You can see, here at the bottom there are lots of empty spaces. And I have left spaces in the corners as well. And that is not O , it is an unfinished Q. Some of these fabrics are hard to stitch through, especially […]

Categories: Alphabet Soup, LARGE CLOTH, Quilting

who knew? who knows?

November 13, 2022 by jude

This isn’t advice, it is just what came to mind while testing the writing over the picture thing, changing colors so the letters were still visible. It worked. I am settling down like the season. Looks like snow coming? It really is about time for this endless summer to come to a close. I just sense the change will seem sudden. More sudden that I am used to. I added a thread line by splitting hairs, the same method […]

Categories: Just Home, STITCH

Mothering is a process

September 19, 2022 by jude

continued from here. A lot like stitching. This one is so so thin, but yet so strong. Stitch can bring a sense of breath.

Categories: sense, STITCH

old heart new heart

August 11, 2022 by jude

This Old Heart Been calling this that. I added circles. A basket. I stitched them with Deb’s thread, the one I call sketchy thread, mostly whiteish with some dirty grey marks. I remember asking here about black and whiteish, if she could do that. And she did. Using one strand, on this scale, a lot like a drawn line. Line, another subject to be revisited. I thought I might be done, but then SUNflower popped back up, because it is […]

Categories: Basket, dividing space, drawing on cloth, Heart, questions, split backstitch

Good Enough

July 18, 2022 by jude

Sometimes a big ol’ patch is just the thing. (Continued from here, in case you weren’t here yesterday…) I think Dee sent me this cloth, but my memory cannot be depended on these days. Patching is applique really. I left the top edge ragged, that makes this cloth a cobblecloth. As if it wasn’t already? I tend to use single thread for quilting these days. I was more likely to use 2 way back when. Interesting to see the play […]

Categories: APPLIQUE, layers, Mending, Quilting, the wedding quilt

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