by jude
The Magic Cloth. A Larger Cloth, in a sense, without using measurement. In the classic sense. I took Magic outside yesterday for a snow wash. I spent a couple of hours shoveling a path to the compost. I try to be outside, despite the cold, at least a couple of hours a day. To move. It feel like I moved to Alaska. Or at least how I imagine that to be. Magic, have I ever measured it? Too long ago […]
Categories: LARGE CLOTH, Magic Cloth • Tags: quilt stories
by jude
Back to counting. Large cloth #4. To go back to when there was no Naming. I placed this over the cloth called Grow because it was still on the Wall and gives this other cloth a sense of scale . A long cloth I will now call Remember. In sympathy with Grow, now, I will let it become larger. This cloth is so old. But feels so present at the Moment. It is one of the first […]
Categories: LARGE CLOTH, Remember • Tags: pathwork, quilt stories
by jude
And the Storm said “Let me Hold You”. Listening. I was thinking about how a stray must learn to listen to survive. But then, how this listening, how it is really like listening to Her-selves. (The Stray Cat series has evolved into the Stray Selves Series because new form is the point.) Yes? I’m not sure about anything today. Except large cloth usually starts with small cloth around here. Sometimes just a small scrap stitched to others […]
Categories: Grow, LARGE CLOTH, Stray Selves Series • Tags: quilt stories, thought catching
by jude
It’s cold but there is Peace in the Valley. It’s a magical snow. I’m not sure about you, but this was not feeling like home. So I am changing the format up a little bit to make it more cozy. There will be an evolution here, but I suppose most of you are used to me changing things around. Like the furniture. The snow was just beginning here. And as you can see, Alphabet Soup is again in use keeping […]
Categories: Alphabet Soup, LARGE CLOTH • Tags: quilt stories, season
by jude
Sympathetic Evolution is a term I use a lot. I will be adding more thoughts to that concept. Here, simply, how one thing might move through another and change form. This one is 55″ square and will not grow outward. I like its simplicity. But there are still stitches to be taken.
Categories: Heal, LARGE CLOTH • Tags: quilt stories
by jude
I think everything is working ok here for now. So I will take up where I left off, counting the large cloths here that are unfinished. Which includes all of them actually because my large cloths, they are never finished. And they are all so different. It has been such a big year, hasn’t it? 2020. And even so, it’s already gone. Almost 13 months since we moved here and still the year was so strange, I feel like I […]
Categories: Alphabet Soup, LARGE CLOTH • Tags: quilt stories
by jude
OK. The Open Air Ritual. The Nest of Days cloth is outside. Breathing fresh air. It’s going to smell so good. When I draped it over the stone wall, well I thought this can be a design wall. When it is warm enough. I’m here now, ready to begin again. Just talking a bit, moving adjusting to a “new home”. I think I will settle in for a bit of snow, update a few things here and February will be […]
Categories: LARGE CLOTH, Nest of Days • Tags: quilt stories