A Letter to the Most Illustrious the Contessina Allagia degli Aldobrandeschi, written Christmas Eve, Anno Domini 1513 I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, youContinue reading “Moving Through Loss: A Wise Woman Ritual circa 2000”
Author Archives: SilkQuilt
The Thousand Zippers
The thousand zippers,One for each timeYou were told to “zip it”.A thousand timesWhen all you were looking forWas an answer,A response,Someone to noticeThat you were alive. Your sizeMade you hard to miss.But even harder to reach.Your hands,Big as the basketballYou spent hours withOn the abandoned playground,Had a gentle touchThat your grandmotherKnew well.You carried herFrom herContinue reading “The Thousand Zippers”
Forty Years and Counting
Today is the opening for Fiberarts International. It’s pretty special. The best and the brightest innovation in a traditionally warm and fuzzy medium. Meeting the artists and the guild organizers yesterday, I am awed by this organization’s influence and support of my personally arduous and circuitous path in an ever changing definition of the fiberContinue reading “Forty Years and Counting”
Craftivism
craft + activism = craftivism. Maker participation that uses the creative process making a stronger more compassionate voice, strengthening personal activism, connecting beyond the self, and making items that facilitate political thought and action. My age old question on the hierarchy of art and craft rears its ugly head: studio art vs fiber art vsContinue reading “Craftivism”
THE WAY
Cleaning Piece IVWrite down everything you fear in life.Burn it.Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.Yoko Ono It is no easy feat to walk 115KM/70MILES, the minimum requirement to receive a compostela, the certificate of completion of the pilgrimage and be awarded the credencial, the official St.James stamp; but three of us,Continue reading “THE WAY”
Teresa Of Avila
I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond. Teresa of Avila is the queen of Catholic mysticism. Her book, The Interior Castle, first published in 1588, derived from profound personal experience. Her castle is a metaphor for the human body with the human soul asContinue reading “Teresa Of Avila”
Another Ending Equals Another Beginning
In the fall, I joined the teaching network of SkillShare and created the first four of a series of SkillShare Classes, one of them covered how to make a basic traditional quilt top. The samples I created for that class went on to become 4 different quilts. Two of them I turned into new tableclothsContinue reading “Another Ending Equals Another Beginning”
Tu B’Shevat
Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone;may it be my custom to go outdoors each dayamong the trees and grass among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer, to talk with the One to whom I belong. May I express there everything in my heart,andContinue reading “Tu B’Shevat”
A New Wall Equals A New Quilt
City Quilt 9-Patch in a 9-Patch Cutter QuiltMaryAnn’s Napkin and TableclothsSadye’s Napkins and TableclothBubbe’s TurtlenecksMaya’s Tee-ShirtHailey’s Denim Shorts RomperIda’s Cable AfghansSadye’s Stocking BagMaya and Hailey’s Baby ShirtsBen’s Sport ShirtsRun Around The Square Tee-ShirtBubbe’s SocksSadye’s Beaded BeltSilkDenim ShirtsLeslie’s silkscreen Bird FabricAmanda’s ChuppahMaurcy Gottlieb PrintBubbe’s Hemp ShirtHeath’s Wool SweaterBubbe’s Wedding DressSarah’s Quilt Backing
Ecstasy Is Chosen
Choose it: right now! What happened? Did a flash of lightning knock you off the sofa? Did the TV go on by itself? Did God call on the telephone to tell you that you are good? Chances are that nothing happened at all. Nothing that is, to our three-dimensional consciousness, which sees only what itContinue reading “Ecstasy Is Chosen”
