Warmed
by jude
Just Saying… thank you. And going.
Categories: centering, color, Heart, Log cabin block, Open Classes, Whispering Hearts • Tags: Patchwork, Small cloth, Symbols and motifs
Category Archives: Open Classes
The hug of sky
by jude
The nature of your materials can lead to new form
Categories: framing, Indigo, Whispering Color • Tags: Dyeing
it comes together by being
by jude
Today I am composed. I am the Composition. I am simply focused, I guess, on what’s here. freedom is Working on the incomplete and bringing them to a point of peace. Letting all else go. Be. I found this, from 101. Just rereading it. No need to change anything, nothing to add.
Categories: circle, COMPOSITION, natural order, Spirit Cloth 101, STITCH, wings
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
Cloth 4 Cloth
by jude
And so it comes to pass…the process and resulting language system begins to ring true. The Extended Nine Patch here emerged through process of combining selves.. A cloth I am calling The Spirit Of Becoming pinned over a big cloth I call Heal. I continue here, building, because I need evidence. Even if it never proves anything to anyone else. Anyway, today’s unedited (always) stream of consciousness: composing
Categories: Cloth 2 Cloth, extended nine patch, Heal, REAL JOURNAL, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs
not quite
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
Revisiting the Old Nest
by jude
There is fog here. After a lot of rain. And now a bit of winter moving in. It is grey and dark. And the man is still sleeping. It looks dull but you can feel the season vibrating beneath the surface. I am sorting through this old basket of scrap. It’s big, this basket, and stuff gets tossed in when I need to tidy up. It is a cloth/thread nest. Bugs get in and so does dampness and dust. It’s […]
Categories: Cloth, Reconsidering, Spirit Cloth 101