I numbered this one as if it was today. It was a before today but I cannot remember which day. It is not done, so it may show up here again in modified form, but it has been born.
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Jeri
It’s always about the process for me and I love finding the unexpected as I go along.
My sister did that for a semi-traditional quilt for a teacher. She gave each child a patch of plain cloth to draw/paint something (I think the general topic was family heritage). She alternated them with a print fabric patches. I don’t know if she stitched on them. It was machine quilted. A nice class farewell to their teacher at the end of the year.
My granddaughter is artistic. I think I may ask her to collaborate with me. So far she has not seemed very interested in stitching, except maybe a little in her “fashion” designing, but she loves to draw. I bet it would be fun for both of us to do something abstract (or not) together. I’ll have to talk to her about it.
A full moon alphabet soup. Or a filling soup of alphabet moons. Or…
A sharing basket of thoughts. Deep thoughts in shallow tide pools lit with moonlight.
Stories can be illustrated, and illustrations can be storied.
Thought: Loved the Lace Trees in related post. So Temple like.
Thought: Love the pool painting of alphabet soup…swirling…images and letters freed-up…who says things that are normally linear have to remain so?
Thought: I have made quilts and such where children have used fabric crayons on muslin first. I then iron it to make it permanent…but had never considered stitching over their marks or adding stitching near or around their marks…interesting idea though!
Last Thought: I am ever so, deeply grateful for this safe, inspiring, educational space and all who come here…and to you dear Jude. xoxo
yeah the crayon thing, I did a lot of that way back, some of the colors did fade away, but it took years.
Maybe I could play a game of skitch skatch with the little one.
Process is so much a part of working with cloth. Going from paper to cloth to paper it seems like process on paper might shift in importance. And stitching drawings reminded me of Jeanne Hewell-Chambers’s beautiful collaboration with her sister-in-law. Opening a new kind of communication.
ooooH… ” to create a cloth that a child could actually draw on and you could work from that..” O, yessssss! how fun to collaborate with your grandchild. or other children… to experience that process… the back ‘n forth of it. a journey like no other!
Always I am thankful to find you here … today I saw a beautiful wise old creature in your first image …
And I’m curious to see where you might go with a cloth that can be drawn upon … Parker drew on cloth with Inktense pencils, then painted the lines with water, making a rather unfortunate puddle … nonetheless I made a patch of it for E’s coverlet … I suspect it has largely washed out … it’s been more successful when I photocopy the grandkids’ drawings and letters, then trace and stitch the lines onto cloth … me being something of a control freak …
last, your watercolor feels like both a deep pool and a map of the heavens … a place of calm either way
It’s always about the process for me and I love finding the unexpected as I go along.
“Looking”… I see one of your beasts.
❤️
My sister did that for a semi-traditional quilt for a teacher. She gave each child a patch of plain cloth to draw/paint something (I think the general topic was family heritage). She alternated them with a print fabric patches. I don’t know if she stitched on them. It was machine quilted. A nice class farewell to their teacher at the end of the year.
My granddaughter is artistic. I think I may ask her to collaborate with me. So far she has not seemed very interested in stitching, except maybe a little in her “fashion” designing, but she loves to draw. I bet it would be fun for both of us to do something abstract (or not) together. I’ll have to talk to her about it.
talking about it is a collaboration in itself.
Thinking is a process. 🙂 Just thinking….
ha! Funny how we think f an idea as a “thing”.
A full moon alphabet soup. Or a filling soup of alphabet moons. Or…
A sharing basket of thoughts. Deep thoughts in shallow tide pools lit with moonlight.
Stories can be illustrated, and illustrations can be storied.
YES, they rock into each other
I see a face in the Deep Pool of Thought!
it’s like a cloud, changing all the time
Thought: Loved the Lace Trees in related post. So Temple like.
Thought: Love the pool painting of alphabet soup…swirling…images and letters freed-up…who says things that are normally linear have to remain so?
Thought: I have made quilts and such where children have used fabric crayons on muslin first. I then iron it to make it permanent…but had never considered stitching over their marks or adding stitching near or around their marks…interesting idea though!
Last Thought: I am ever so, deeply grateful for this safe, inspiring, educational space and all who come here…and to you dear Jude. xoxo
yeah the crayon thing, I did a lot of that way back, some of the colors did fade away, but it took years.
Maybe I could play a game of skitch skatch with the little one.
Process is so much a part of working with cloth. Going from paper to cloth to paper it seems like process on paper might shift in importance. And stitching drawings reminded me of Jeanne Hewell-Chambers’s beautiful collaboration with her sister-in-law. Opening a new kind of communication.
Ah, yes, thank you for that reminder…
Oh yes! I loved watching those drawings move into stitch!
it was a great project
I love that Deep Pool of Thought is continuing to inspire you. And that you are enjoying the paper. Happy Thanksgiving!
I love the crossover, how cloth and paper are becoming one joy. Happy day to you.
thankful for you, jude
backatcha
ooooH… ” to create a cloth that a child could actually draw on and you could work from that..” O, yessssss! how fun to collaborate with your grandchild. or other children… to experience that process… the back ‘n forth of it. a journey like no other!
i always drew on the walls, maybe just have cloth walls…
Always I am thankful to find you here … today I saw a beautiful wise old creature in your first image …
And I’m curious to see where you might go with a cloth that can be drawn upon … Parker drew on cloth with Inktense pencils, then painted the lines with water, making a rather unfortunate puddle … nonetheless I made a patch of it for E’s coverlet … I suspect it has largely washed out … it’s been more successful when I photocopy the grandkids’ drawings and letters, then trace and stitch the lines onto cloth … me being something of a control freak …
last, your watercolor feels like both a deep pool and a map of the heavens … a place of calm either way
lots is happening for me in these past days. freedom has surfaced, I think I need the paper part.
Love that circle card
I’m enjoying this, uncovering old roots.
👍🏻💕