by jude
Two young ones and an empty space from last year’s wood pile. Soon to be filled with next season’s wood pile. We need to get to that. And a feeling of going without knowing where. But with a sense of why. Which is quite automated in me. Trust. Trust in what? Do deer trust they will find food? Grow up strong? Find a mate? Live in a beautiful place? Realize their potential? Or do they just keep going because it […]
Categories: questions
by jude
There is no point, she said to her(my)self, to blog without allowing comments. What’s the point then? That’s the thread that runs through it. Holds it together. Validates this cyber space as a place, the web. So then what is the point of comments if you don’t answer them? If you can. 6 strands of thread here. A bigger needle. A bit harder to pull the thread through, but problem solving is what we do. That is what growing is. I […]
Categories: Grow, LIFE AND STORY, questions, thread
by jude
When a pattern emerges, it is easy going. I am patching first and adding the circles as I go. Not measuring, just the best I can. How it looks right to me. I suddenly thought about centering, how that is really about balance. Balance is often a feeling, a sense, not a measurement. I wonder, if it seems balanced to me, will it feel balanced to you, and if so, would it be for another reason? I see cat hair. […]
Categories: centering, COMPOSITION, questions
by jude
How are you? What a world. Do you know what humid looks like? Looks ok, feels not so great. It will be 95 here tomorrow. Eek. Do I have enough eyes? I think not. The eyes are seeds on the Grow cloth. Working on more today. I have a bad habit if planting seeds and forgetting what I planted. But then sooner or later they show their real faces. And I just love this red line, waiting to be crossed. […]
Categories: questions, THOUGHT CATCHING
by jude
From another season…Building a blue frame then…reasoning I love that reason rhymes with season. How season might even be a good reason. Today I will begin a fast. Claim her own Wisdom, as grace mentioned in her latest post, which I cannot seem to comment on… Hi Grace! Brings me back to what we know from experience. Wisdom, which is knowledge, but a knowing framed only by a life lived. Ginger Lemon Water, the beginning, in an attempt to purge […]
Categories: framing, Health, paperless piecing, PATCHWORK, questions, Season
by jude
I continue with the game of chasing form. Form contains how it happened. I usually say. Form still contains how it happened even if I don’t say. I want to express how personal that is. Finding that thread. Giving form to what arises through thought. Sense. Experience. The transformation that depends on so much that goes beyond technique. It is difficult to share, and then, explain that at the same time. Sometimes when I see the “sameness” across the […]
Categories: questions, sympathetic evolution
by jude
The silk caused me to consider becoming lighter. Without disappearing. And then ask, “Where is the edge of me?” Note: Regarding yesterday’s post. There is no list because there is no book. Yet. You know how slow I can go. I would probably forget where I put the list anyway.
Categories: Cloth Stories, questions, Stray Selves Series
by jude
Order. Personal Order, then Natural order. All seemingly, over a lifetime of illusion, part of Chaos. Life forms. The tendency to make sense of it all. Today I laughed while thinking about myself writing a book when I hardly ever read one. Also I realize I might not really enjoy it. The process. Then while thinking back to how many times I’ve said it’s not the thing it’s the journey. And then asking myself what if writing a book has […]
Categories: COMPOSITION, edges, fringe, Just Home, questions, the other side, THOUGHT CATCHING, WEAVING
by jude
Continuing. From here. I made a circle using the Double Running Stitch aka the Magic Stitch when it is done in black and white. I think really I should rename it the Double Walking Stitch. You have to go slowly. And there are more things to say. But not today. Loose thoughts are on my mind and then imaginings on how they might come together. And then of course the question. What If it doesn’t much matter? Followed quickly by […]
Categories: circle, dividing space, field, framing, Just Home, Naming Things, natural order, questions, SPIRIT CLOTH LANGUAGE, Symbols and Motifs