by jude
The first thing I see in the morning is the sky. Even though the window is small. The sorting continues and it is just amazing how many things are still here, forgotten. But then not really. Because they do continue, like a form born in a dream. Dream catching is very tricky. Sometimes I like the card form just because it stands. As a display form. I am not sure who might expect a card like this. I slept well, […]
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
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
by jude
The photo is blurry. As imagining can sometimes be. Maybe needs to be. Always is. Elusive. Always flowing. Just going. Building starts small. I love the sheer moon, like looking through a time window. Some sort of layer of perspective. Not stitched, just a place keeper for now. A yesterday. And a tomorrow. Both. Held by nothing. That is so comforting. What is it that encourages us to imagine new worlds? Not money methinks. I posted on Instagram yesterday. I […]
Categories: Basket, Reconsidering, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs
by jude
I am happy to see so many bees. I look forward to next year’s garden now that I am a bit more familiar with what will grow here. Rain barrels are the next project. And maybe an ark… just sayin’… The red line is drawn. Stitched. Pressed into the cloth, It seems the beginning of a basket. I sense so many here already. And the line came through. I had spread it on the floor, to look. Covered in cat […]
Categories: Basket, circle, COMPOSITION, Eyes, field, Garden, Grow, LARGE CLOTH, LIFE AND STORY, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs, the other side, THOUGHT CATCHING, What if (?)
by jude
I placed my Deep Pool of Thought over a Nest of Days so I might Reconsider Freedom. Gee, that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? From the side, Three cloths deep, but many more moments… It became a Medicine wheel Basket. In my mind. Not a shield but a deep pool of holding some sort of personal order. And acceptance. Of what might be but maybe never will be. And I can rest in that, the imagined. The form that arises if […]
Categories: Basket, COMPOSITION, Deep Pool of Thought, layers, Looking, Nest of Days, Symbols and Motifs, sympathetic evolution, THOUGHT CATCHING, walls
by jude
Eventually, the fog moves on. Or we do. I’m not really one to give up on just about anything. As you might know by now, yesterday’s self is mostly not today’s, even though we (selves) are all in the same basket. After what can be at this point, a lifetime, I have come to appreciate that place between my mood swings. As much as the rocking back and forth. Life mostly happens in the middle. Might life be, then, the […]
Categories: Basket, Deep Pool of Thought, Liquid Applique, SKITCH SKATCH, Stray Selves Series
by jude
They say it will snow for 9 of the next 14 days here in the Valley. We’ve grown tired of moving snow around. But we will do it anyway. My idea is hibernating. But Spring is coming. I’ll trust in that. Season. Just talking to talk. reason The other side is perfect. I need to add another layer to continue. Here as a record of my love. Even covered, it will always be there.
Categories: Basket, Symbols and Motifs • Tags: What-if?