to rest
by jude
How do we become so insensitive?
Categories: Forever Zone, Grow, natural order, Reconsidering, rest, Season • Tags: Large cloth, Season
by jude
How do we become so insensitive?
Categories: Forever Zone, Grow, natural order, Reconsidering, rest, Season • Tags: Large cloth, Season
by jude
A. A is for Alphabet. When I worked in the textile industry, I began as a handweaver, weaving samples. Samples were necessary to show customers what pattern changes would look like. Designers created a group of of cloth constructions and woven patterns as ideas, presented them to the salesforce. And then the “salesfolks” would work with their customers and their customers would buy sample yardage to make up into sample garments and if they remained interested they might usually change […]
Categories: alphabet, natural order, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, story
by jude
This is Chip. Dale is off scouting for the last of the chickpeas. I suppose today, I will make the sign. Welcome to the Chipmunk Garden. Settle into how it will be here. Here are 9 Magnolia petals, at various stages of change. The blossoms were short lived but I remember them clearly. With joy.
Categories: Garden, LIFE AND STORY, natural order, nine
by jude
However it happens. It is so much about season. And so are we.
Categories: natural order, PAPER WORK, sympathetic evolution, temple
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
by jude
Early this morning. A photo. Just finished stitching the last square. New seasons are upon us. I wonder how they will become for us. Heal. A quilt on the wall is one thing, but up close you are in it somehow. And that is what it is for. How joyously soft this seems to me now, like once upon a time when nine was not even a memory. A field of loose puzzle pieces. Once upon a time when there […]
Categories: APPLIQUE, COMPOSITION, field, Heal, joy, LARGE CLOTH, METHODS and Techniques, natural order, Season, square
by jude
There was a storm. A small branch fell from an overhead tree to the deck below. The young morning glory, previously supported by a wooden skewer was hanging down, knocked over by the heavy rain. I stuck the branch into the soil, for it to lean on, before going to bed. In the morning, this. I really like looking at Freedom over Heal. And how it seems to have become some sort of personal medicine wheel. It seems as wet […]
Categories: Heal, LIFE AND STORY, Looking, natural order, Season
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
by jude
Half faced. An eclipse of self I was thinking. Then how much the moon can teach us. About the temporary. And the constancy. Of appearing and disappearing. How to work with that. Use it actually, to get a sense of how it is, was, might be. Might always be. So it’s magic. To me, how things appear and disappear. Not as in trickery or illusion, but as a real part of going. Like night into day and back again. […]
Categories: MAGIC, Moon, natural order, Season, Yesterday's Moon