by jude
Outside, before October, because I can’t seem to get a decent cloth pic indoors with the new autumn light. I last posted about it here. Magic Cloth 2, which I began calling Spin. You’ve been seeing the other side with the big red velvet circle for a while now. I am taking inventory of the Big, Large Cloth here. I have added Large Cloth to the Glossary so I might gather them in one spot for finding and following. I […]
Categories: Beast, fire, LARGE CLOTH, Spin, what's happening
by jude
2008 ? ! I am really sorting through the past, trying desperately to open some space in my brain for newness. I came across this article from way back, Artful Blogging Magazine which has since been retired. Back when blogging was just blossoming. New. I was there. So were a lot of you. I kept the pages because they seem antique. Maybe I will use them to paint on. Or something. Over the years I have disengaged with being published […]
Categories: alphabet, Alphabet Soup, dots, joy, Remembering
by jude
The shift has taken hold. The Indigo has gone to seed. I will make some free seed available in early spring. At this point I have way more than I will need. It seems to reseed here anyway. At least enough for my use. A tomato star. Most of the tomato plants have a weird mold on the leaves. But fruiting continues. I wish I had a greenhouse. But I might be able to do a hoop house. That is […]
Categories: Garden, wishing star
by jude
Sometimes, 9, Nine, is like a note to self. Most of the time actually. I like to make one a day. Ninedujour Series. They have turned into a way to journal in cloth. I happened upon a box of tiny puzzle pieces, leftover from Small Cloth class, so they have taken smaller form these past days. Today A can be for temporary Alignment. Like this is a temporary page, only the nine will actually hold together. For a while at […]
Categories: nine, nine, Season, THOUGHT CATCHING
by jude
Yesterday, a few new stitches on This Old Heart. This morning, an unrolling. A few Morning Glories. A few compromised indigo leaves, the green. I already knew the morning glories gave color. I usually save them and freeze them. I am working on a few things for next week’s shop update, but I will be gone from here after today. Until September. My boy turns 43 on the 1st. Imagine that. I am focused on becoming and sometimes it requires […]
by jude
Just a few marigolds. A bit of alum. On silk, in the sun. Solar Dyeing. There is another jar without the alum. I have heard there is a fade factor. Best to see for self. The water here has a heavy mineral content, much different than back on the Island. Everything is different here. Isn’t that great? New eyes. Heat is building here again today, Maybe I will leave it a bit longer. Maybe inspiring another SUNflower. I mean wow. […]
Categories: DYEING, solar dyeing, sunflower
by jude
Imagining my self as a Wild Sunflower… Energy returns when you wake up to 60 degrees. My coma has subsided.
Categories: joy, sunflower, What if (?)
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
It simply has to be time for simpler. Maybe because I have run out of wall space. Maybe because I am wondering what it is all for? Still. Even in the fullest of days, more. Sunflowers. I want to say more about sunflowers, but it is still awfully hot and humid. Summer Bitch has even given up. Just wants to nap. Did not cool down last night. There seems to be no air this morning. At least not the breathable […]
Categories: just going, sunflower