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
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
Sometimes new form is difficult. Not the birth of it, I think that just happens. The acceptance of it. That is often blocked by our choosing NOT to show it. I don’t know about you but I can say in all honesty, audience is a factor. Well, after all my years I know in my heart that is probably always true. There is a need to share, but we shape it. So new form is rare. Because it isn’t easy […]
Categories: Beast, COMPOSITION, direction, Naming Things, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, story, Stray Selves Series, Symbols and Motifs, sympathetic evolution
by jude
Yesterday’s self was upside down. Today’s self is neither here nor there. This is just an old moonfaced beast base that needed to continue and I just stitched slowly and let it go bit by bit with no goal. In the spirit of becoming, the process was just about how it might go, and bearing witness. Just in between. The instability of form is on my mind. And then, all the work here that might be become a base once […]
Categories: base, Beast, COMPOSITION, design mending, flow, Stray Selves Series
by jude
What a common thing to say, but now I catch myself, how untrue. What’s done is done? Not. Nothing is done, only paused but then not even that. It’s all just going. The things we might casually tell our children might be so misleading. Reconsider. I placed it, Everything is So Fragile, over Heal, which has become almost a regular ceremony for the unfinished lately… now thinking healing is never finished. And then over something else, just to give it […]
Categories: Beast, edges, ghosting, Heal, Looking, MAGIC, Reconsidering
by jude
I returned to a Yesterday’s Self. From here. Removed the paper templates and traced them on to very thin cloth marked with plant dye and stitched them down. The cloth is very thin. Fragile. Which got me thinking. What if I cut away behind the applique? But I don’t need to really, the turned edge shows through and reveals the thinness. Now, the concept of Yesterday’s Self has reared it’s head. The thinness seems part of it. Maybe wear. […]
by jude
Flow. A little Liquid Applique. Earth Alive. I will call it that.
Categories: a Little Holiday Cloth, Beast, Liquid Applique
by jude
This Just Going, my style of keeping at it, it can be unnerving to some. My Dad was always after me to finish things, have a plan. At least when I was just starting out…because even as I look back it is hard for me to even remember what my reasons were for most things. Just that there was no Rhyme or Reason or Particular Order to me. Yet, a sense of direction always remained. And direction becomes circular. And […]
Categories: Beast, circle, COMPOSITION