Heart

February 4, 2023 by jude

Just heart in February. All the while thinking of how many ways things might be put together. Hold, And fall apart. The holding. In between appearing and disappearing. Holding. Is that really a thing or a sense of some thing? A little Skitch Skatch then. I added Thingness to the glossary today. I don’t use that word much but I think a lot about it. I am working on a woven base. Because it has been a while and I […]

Categories: Heart, questions, SKITCH SKATCH, SMALL CLOTH, weathering a storm

becoming

August 20, 2022 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 […]

Categories: Heart, sunflower

old heart new heart

August 11, 2022 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

To Love cloth

July 17, 2022 by jude

To Mend, just that. On this summer’s day. This, the wedding quilt from here. Washed and now being strengthened for the next leg of the journey. Thought I might just put it here, to share the feeling that care brings. I put an x on the patch mark the spot and hold it. It goes all the way through to the other side. A kind of quilting then. Split backstitch. Up next: I love how cloth wears, reminding us to […]

Categories: Heart, LARGE CLOTH, Mending, the wedding quilt

Considering Form

August 10, 2021 by jude

Yesterday’s Heart was so Sure a piece in the ever growing Sanity series that suddenly came together just yesterday. I went back to find a loose note to self I remember so clearly. But I can never find exactly where it is kept. So I wrote it down again. Because I am right here, today, chasing it in a new way and also trying to redefine how heart is slowly becoming a personal symbol apart from the mainstream sugar. And […]

Categories: COMPOSITION, design mending, Heart, natural order, PATCHWORK, Reconsidering, Sanity, Symbols and Motifs, THOUGHT CATCHING

Travel Well

March 19, 2021 by jude

Cloth seems to have a memory. The kind we have. But actually cloth does have it’s own kind of memory. Retaining a lot about how it was handled, worn and rescued. Loved. Ha! Like us then… I finally “finished” this one. Because it feels like enough. Even though it seems like I could mend it into being forever. In Memory of our Michelle. I notice how my eyes come to rest after a while, on the Karma-Patch. There is true […]

Categories: Cloth, fringe, Heart, story

Journal February 23rd 2021

February 23, 2021 by jude

Sometimes, trying to explain is the most difficult part. There is often what seems like a disconnect between hand and mind. That is the bridge we need to build. And keep in good repair. The truth is in the going. And the value is in the acceptance of of how it might go. The creative act is not outside of you. Art does not create itself. An image does not form of it’s own accord. That is just vague in […]

Categories: Heart, RECONSIDERING Skitch Skatch, SKITCH SKATCH, THOUGHT CATCHING

Journal February 22nd 2021

February 22, 2021 by jude

Paper mache has been brewing for a while. Yeah, so… just some paper stuff that has caught my attention lately. For no clear reason. Honestly I am going through the boxes of paper stuff I brought here. Just to review a lot of stored thoughts, I guess because I feel like they have been waiting. Just paper stuff. Not Cloth. I was playing with paper folding earlier this year.

Categories: Heart, PAPER WORK

Journal February 21st 2021

February 21, 2021 by jude

I found the original artwork for the Most Unusual (Skitch Skatch) Rabbit. 1971? I am noticing how I ultimately used a lot of my drawing style, that is how it informed my cloth work. You see I am interested in crossover, not really mixed media. I always divided my backgrounds into “patches” of color. The base layer. And the dots, stippling, became the thread beads. I am not sure how to Be Here at this point. Is “Cloth Whispering” going […]

Categories: Heart, Joodle HIll, SKITCH SKATCH

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