It was one of the first pieces I made to protect me.
Making it caused me to realize how much I'd come to rely on quilt making to help me get through difficult personal situations.
I have little control of events that happen to those I love, but I can control my art.
I can find beauty - even create beauty, while chaos happens all around me.
'when you consider something like death, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard are awkward sometimes or care for one another too deeply" Diane Ackerman
This cloth is indeed a protector, a talisman, a keeper of history and herstory, a dairy, a life saver.
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ReplyDeleteyou get born
you grow up
you go through puberty
you fall in love
you have children
you worry about them being safe
you die.
Quilts are connected to the bed and the bed is connected to the story.
The Story in 39 words. x
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