give it time
by jude
Taking my time has been my greatest tool.
Categories: Garden, split backstitch • Tags: Stitch, Story
Category Archives: split backstitch
Another red line
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
old heart new heart
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
Forever
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
Coming Around
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
Always Reconsider
by jude
Never be too sure. The ability to change your mind is a never ending opportunity to learn. Especially from each other. Fencing for the garden. That I had decided not to do. For now, I need to stay off my feet. The garden will wait. So I continued stitching this leaf to celebrate growth. And to what I learn at every turn. I had two small slices, not quite halves, of circles leftover from something else… folded the edge of […]
Categories: fold and stitch, Garden, MAKING DO, Pairing, seams, split backstitch, sympathetic evolution
Center can be anywhere it’s needed…
by jude
Yesterday… it was a moon. Today it became a sun. What if that makes it both? I’m splitting hairs…. splitting hairs It’s raining. And I need it. Sun. And I am thinking about sun. And I went back to look at some old sun storming. Sun-storming from Sun Moon Stars warmth, sunrise/sunset, daytime, sundial, radiance, center, rays, yellow, sunshine makes me happy, what’s new under the sun, solar energy, shadow, sky, life, constant I’m focused on the Center aspect and […]
Categories: centering, COMPOSITION, Open Classes, split backstitch, STITCH, sun, Sun Moon Stars