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Even on cloudy days, nature provides a pick me up. A sunny day stored up for when you need it.
And then there is sunshine from Heike. A gentle smile in cloth. She manages to package a bit of kindness with her cloth. You can feel it.
I've been working some yellow through blue. They go well together.
Posted on March 29, 2012 in color, kindness, selling what you make/do, spring, trusted resource | Permalink | Comments (30)
I drew this in 2007. I think a redo is in order, 3 more lives maybe?
And I drew this a few minutes ago, just asking myself what if (?) I looked at nine lives overlapped... as layers, what form could emerge? Thinking how the form would change depending on the arrangement, or the meeting points....
Funny how simple questions connect thoughts. I have come to realize that simple questions are not embarrassing, no matter how old you are.
Posted on March 28, 2012 in 9(forever), doodle wednesday, illustration, meeting points, nine lives patch, questions, WAS, what if | Permalink | Comments (28)
Posted on March 27, 2012 in blanket-human wrapping cloth, large cloth, light and dark, looking, magic cloth 2, rings of vision, season/change, seeing through things, spring, sympathetic (sempathetic) evolution, thin cloth, transformation, transition | Permalink | Comments (57)
It is quite cold here again. But I have simply found new energy, a way through some recent confusion. 72. That is how many unfinished things are piled up here. And now a path through them. Maybe it is a spring thing. As I pick them up one by one, they grow into some sort of newness. Continued from here, this IS about that, continuing. I filled in one more space, to make nine. They are sort of like pauses in going aren't they? These loops. And there is a bit of unexpected growth. I added that this morning, as a reminder of the kind of going that we often overlook, especially in Winter. And to honor change.
With all the current things running through my head, it was only natural for me to ask, what if (?) these loops, lives, were arranged as a nine patch.
By the way, I am working to restore access to the What If blog, as part of a what-iffing trend that has resurfaced with Spring.
Posted on March 26, 2012 in 9(forever), context/frames of mind, continuing aka Just Going, design mending, nine lives patch, ninepatch, place, redefinition, space, spring, sympathetic (sempathetic) evolution, what if, wide cloth | Permalink | Comments (53)
Yesterday there was just the moon, but the nine patch as a way to contain time is now really on my mind, the dark and light, night and day of it, which was always part of the magic, but now the nine lives part of it. It has generated new ideas. This is good. What if this is a way to re-animate tradition? A crossover. Yes. I am in it. The nine-lives patch. The nine patch " lives". Thank you Was.
Today I am remembering the involuntary noises she used to make when she saw birds flying by or heard them chirping. It made me laugh. It still does.
Posted on March 25, 2012 in 9(forever), Becoming more or less, continuing aka Just Going, crossover, design planning, form, grateful, inspiration, moons, natural order, nine lives patch, ninepatch, patchwork(mostly in perspective), redefinition, remembering, SpiritCloth Lite, symbols, sympathetic (sempathetic) evolution, transformation, what if | Permalink | Comments (48)
This morning I finished this. I added some small details and changed its name to Nine Lives in memory of sweet Was. I t is a simple piece and it says so much. Like a life, it is a map of days that leaves evidence of going and the freedom in that. And it has a sense of continuing within a natural order, yet without limits. And I caught myself petting that one velvet square, it is soft like her. So it just seemed to fit.
And I, forever changed, have renamed the nine patch, in her honor. A small thing maybe, just a way to look at this magical arrangement with new eyes. The Nine Lives patch.
There are many more things that could be said. But I will not say them. I have lost a few days of emails and blog posts and such so forgive me if I did not answer or comment. I will not go back there.
Posted on March 24, 2012 in 9(forever), ceremony, continuing aka Just Going, life, natural order, nine lives patch, ninepatch, quilt stories, remembering, sympathetic (sempathetic) evolution, WAS | Permalink | Comments (63)
I cut this short because I lost it somewhat. I have disabled the comments here on this post, you have all been so generous with your concern and comments already, I just wanted to thank you all so much. And to let you know that I will be a way for a few days.
See you later...
jude
Posted on March 21, 2012 in ceremony, continuing aka Just Going, design planning, edges, life, looking, magic cloth 2, mending, moons, quilt stories, rest, rings of vision, space, sympathetic (sempathetic) evolution, WAS | Permalink
Posted on March 20, 2012 in ceremony, continuing aka Just Going, life, WAS, wings | Permalink | Comments (128)
If the path before you is clear,
you are probably on
someone else's.
-Carl Jung