it's so helpful to read your perspective on the god stuff - the rough spots in my own god complex are smoothing out for me as I reach the halfway point of another cycle through the artist's way. I feel not only open, but INTERESTED in the possibility of divinity working itself through me, an agnostic buddhist! thank you for your writing, Cody! xoxo
Love love love that photo of you with the microphone, and people all around. It reminds me a bit of my "JESUS IS LORD" days (sigh), and being in venues with folks walking around with microphones and saying their thing, but I feel like this photo reclaims that imagery, that setting, that VIBE, so thank you for sharing that :)
I've collected scraps of fabric and T-shirts for quilts for years now. I've never quilted. I've never learned to quilt. I mean it when I say I'm going to turn the scraps into something beautiful. But I end up just turning them into the pillows or keeping them in a neat little stack by my sewing machine. This has moved me, though. I want to relook at those scraps, if not just to spell stitches while I sing and create that something beautiful I've been promising myself I would.
Okay, where do I start?! I worship the Gees Bend artists, when they had a show of their quilts at the Cooper Hewitt in New York many years ago, I went three times. Loved all their bold choices, loved them as abstractions, as real things in the world, everything. I cannot believe you got to take a class with some of these women! AND, I too, want to talk about God and the sacred in my writing and have felt that exact embarrassment for those exact reasons. You are emboldening me as you embolden yourself-thank you!
Cody, every one of your recent posts has just struck the biggest chord for me, thank you for sharing this. As someone who is very fresh into the world of quilting, I'm finding it so inspiring, but also quite overwhelming - I want to just learn it all right now! Beautiful reflections in this post, crafting and creativity is just amazing.
Actually to me mending projects are the greatest things 🥳☺️🥰 since I bought a little new things for a while now, apparently more and more mends are coming my way. And I guess this is a lot like quilting, if I get you right. The perspective of baby steps.
And the workshop you did visit in Mississippi ❣ I would have loved to join!!
But I'm shure something according to this really lovely offering will pop up in Europe soon too.
And if I'm coming to US ever so here's another place and people, I definitely would love to sit with for a while 👌🏼💃🏽🌿😘
Quilts are EVERYTHING that is good in the world. I am endlessly grateful that I chose to sign up for AQISH back in January 2021 after a decade of wishing I was a quilter but being held back by perfectionism. (To be fair, I also had a whole bunch of little kids at that time, which are very very distracting.) THANK YOU CODY!!
So much joy in this post! Thank you, Cody. I have made two quilts in my life and had no idea what I was doing when I began. I made quilts for my daughters for the high school graduation. 18 blocks that represented different memories of them. It was infused with so much love! God was in the room. <3
this one hit me with so much encouragement at such a time of need. bless you for hand holding the spirit in your work and the way it pours out of your offerings. <3
it's so helpful to read your perspective on the god stuff - the rough spots in my own god complex are smoothing out for me as I reach the halfway point of another cycle through the artist's way. I feel not only open, but INTERESTED in the possibility of divinity working itself through me, an agnostic buddhist! thank you for your writing, Cody! xoxo
Love love love that photo of you with the microphone, and people all around. It reminds me a bit of my "JESUS IS LORD" days (sigh), and being in venues with folks walking around with microphones and saying their thing, but I feel like this photo reclaims that imagery, that setting, that VIBE, so thank you for sharing that :)
also cody where can i sign up to the book club on the new artists way guide ? 🤞🏻
I've collected scraps of fabric and T-shirts for quilts for years now. I've never quilted. I've never learned to quilt. I mean it when I say I'm going to turn the scraps into something beautiful. But I end up just turning them into the pillows or keeping them in a neat little stack by my sewing machine. This has moved me, though. I want to relook at those scraps, if not just to spell stitches while I sing and create that something beautiful I've been promising myself I would.
Okay, where do I start?! I worship the Gees Bend artists, when they had a show of their quilts at the Cooper Hewitt in New York many years ago, I went three times. Loved all their bold choices, loved them as abstractions, as real things in the world, everything. I cannot believe you got to take a class with some of these women! AND, I too, want to talk about God and the sacred in my writing and have felt that exact embarrassment for those exact reasons. You are emboldening me as you embolden yourself-thank you!
So excited for book club! Thank you for giving us all an opportunity to connect more deeply with our creative selves !!
I’ve never felt any sort of desire to make a quilt until reading this. 💛
Thank you for way you write about god 💛
Cody, every one of your recent posts has just struck the biggest chord for me, thank you for sharing this. As someone who is very fresh into the world of quilting, I'm finding it so inspiring, but also quite overwhelming - I want to just learn it all right now! Beautiful reflections in this post, crafting and creativity is just amazing.
Actually to me mending projects are the greatest things 🥳☺️🥰 since I bought a little new things for a while now, apparently more and more mends are coming my way. And I guess this is a lot like quilting, if I get you right. The perspective of baby steps.
And the workshop you did visit in Mississippi ❣ I would have loved to join!!
But I'm shure something according to this really lovely offering will pop up in Europe soon too.
And if I'm coming to US ever so here's another place and people, I definitely would love to sit with for a while 👌🏼💃🏽🌿😘
Quilts are EVERYTHING that is good in the world. I am endlessly grateful that I chose to sign up for AQISH back in January 2021 after a decade of wishing I was a quilter but being held back by perfectionism. (To be fair, I also had a whole bunch of little kids at that time, which are very very distracting.) THANK YOU CODY!!
So much joy in this post! Thank you, Cody. I have made two quilts in my life and had no idea what I was doing when I began. I made quilts for my daughters for the high school graduation. 18 blocks that represented different memories of them. It was infused with so much love! God was in the room. <3
Thank you Cody, this was just wonderful to read. Loved your thoughts on letting God into the room. Amen to that, and to the art you are making. X
this one hit me with so much encouragement at such a time of need. bless you for hand holding the spirit in your work and the way it pours out of your offerings. <3
loved all of it