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
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 […]
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
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
by jude
There is no point, she said to her(my)self, to blog without allowing comments. What’s the point then? That’s the thread that runs through it. Holds it together. Validates this cyber space as a place, the web. So then what is the point of comments if you don’t answer them? If you can. 6 strands of thread here. A bigger needle. A bit harder to pull the thread through, but problem solving is what we do. That is what growing is. I […]
Categories: Grow, LIFE AND STORY, questions, thread
by jude
Walking through the forest yesterday, suited up to battle ticks and flying things. It’s been humid and wet, less human friendly lately. The paths are overgrown, the green is thick, and the water that spills through the stone wall to the adjoining property, it is indeed forming a pond-like environment. I am going to ask the neighbors to stop riding through on their ATV, an arrangement we made during winter, with my permission, to give the boy an activity […]
Categories: Grow, LARGE CLOTH, split backstitch, STITCH
by jude
There was a bit of sweaty stitching yesterday. It reached 94 here. This morning 57. I didn’t want to cover the original embroidery so I worked the 2 points with thread. Deb thread. It was a slow challenge, I love this appearing and disappearing. I used what I call the wrap stitch. There is a lot of old cloth around here, I have ideas. I watched a squirrel friend fall prey to a fox friend. There wasn’t much else I […]
Categories: design mending, LIFE AND STORY, sympathetic evolution, the wrap
by jude
Good Morning It seems such a privilege, in these days… to be sitting here, just sitting here, stitching. Not in terms of what’s happening here, but what is happening everywhere. I got so lost in complaining about such stupid things. Yesterday, I was working on the Mothering Cloth. Today it is my mother. As I remember how she used to say, “Don’t worry, something will come of it.” Something. Can be anything. Some new loose thoughts on framing this morning. What […]
Categories: Basket, Moon, STITCH, what's happening
