quilting renewal on doodle wednesday

.......in the spirit of getting to things, i have picked up that easter project meant for mom  and i have recycled it with the intention of using it for a mother's day gift as well as my april tif, renewing my contract with that  exercise on a more personal level.
the sleeping baby carrots are almost done and it seemed to me that they were dreaming there among the green. resting yes, but dreaming. keepers of the awareness of their own potential perhaps. i thought about change. change is really a matter of perception. it is somehow always wrapped up in a renewal process though, which is growth in a bigger picture.

making things, is about potential, like having children, it is a renewal process. you can initiate and nurture it. and at the same time it grows on its own. and things change.

so this piece has been renamed renewal. it has changed but it is still for mom. she and i are still growing and i am happy about it.

and so as a change of pace, doodles on paper have changed to doodles on fabric. i am happy about that too!

Comments

[Toni]

My son and I could stare for hours at your work and never really see all of it. Little hidden pieces are revealed with each viewing. I am amazed every time I come back to your creations.

[Kristin La Flamme]

I love love love it. Every time you touch this it just gets better and better.

[jeanne]

little baby carrots. growing underground. tucked in, unseen, until they're ready.

[glennis]

love the little bunnies "in utero"? like little baby carrots growing underground...

[ramona]

Beautiful!

[P-la]

Those dreaming carrots are just about the sweetest things I've ever seen!

[Lorie M.]

Love this in every way.

[Laney]

The colors are just wonderful in this, so full of life. The baby rabbits are lovely...wow mama rabbits have lots of action with all those bunnies kicking in utero. LOVE these colors.

[calamity kim]

I am glad you and your Mom are healing.
I just had a phone call from one of the ladies who urges me to go "be in public" at the Knit & Bitch and the shop owner, whom I adore, managed to break her arm last night and will be in a cast for the next 16 weeks.
Why? I sit and ask myself? What changes will that bring to her life and work? She can't knit. Knitting is her life. and livelihood. She has a big show in June.
There has to be a reason for everything, I tell myself that everyday. No matter how difficult or easy- it just is what it is and we have to accept it and grow from it.

[karen]

absolutely beautiful work

[Acey]

sitting here eating strawberry sorbet and happily studying the lovely sorbet-colored pictures. Am so glad that it's time to pick something up and have the reconnection serve as a vehicle of renewal in a number of different ways. Seems the only thing better than making this particular mother's day gift is being the lucky mom who receives it.

[Mary]

Love those sweet baby carrots! and of course all that stitching...Yum!

[tacoma flowers]

that's really pretty.

[Jan in nagasaki]

i love the green stitching on the carrot tops.

[Kristin]

The baby carrots and that bunny face are so adorable! I just love your work, Jude!

[laura]

Dear Jude,
I wish these things:
1. that you are having as much fun creating your Spring quilt, as I have watching and enjoying the hatching of your ideas,
2. that I had your sense of intuitive design,
3. that all mothers had healthy children,
4. that all children had healthy mothers,
5. that Spring was a HUGE, worldwide celebration,
6. that hope is enough,
7. for the energy to, as Gandhi said, be the change you wish to see in the world.
8. that I'd found you before I went back to work...wah.

[Tonya R]

what sweet baby carrots. you always do the most amazing faces. just lovely. and i Love the greens sprouting from the tops as well. fantastic.

[jmbmommy]

Oh my gosh...oh my. Thank you for letting things change. I love this piece even more. It is just beautiful.

[neki rivera]

Spring is re birth, change and healing. Your mom will be happy with this gift.

neki desu

[Cindi]

What a beautifully light piece. I love the soft colors!

And today, I came home to the best package of beautiful scraps! I can't thank you enough! I'm already getting tons of ideas just looking at them all!

Hugs!

[Diane]

I'm speechless with the wonder of your work!

[cathie]

Oh Jude - My favorite thing to do on Friday night is pour myself a little glass of Merlot and visit your blog. It is like going on a lovely vacation for me. Your sweet little stitches giving life to angelic faces, cuddly creatures and textural delights -- such a treat.
Have a great weekend.

[Victoria]

I love that face. Also, I find the photo of tiny quilting is very life affirming.

[jenclair]

Love the carrots with their little faces and their ferny, feathery tops. And the bunnies - so sweetly curled up and waiting. Mr. McGregor better be on guard.

[jeannette]

i've thought about these carrots, and some made by cyntergomes over on livejournal, almost every day. i realized, having started on a doll quilt based on botanical sense memories of my childhood, that one of the minis i want to make is a.) daddy's shade garden (pieced jack in the pulpits, i think) and b.) daddy's salsify garden, a la jude's carrots.
can you tell me what the piecing method for the carrots is?
with so many thanks.