Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living One can never have too many quilts. It’s easy to reach your limit on needlepoint pillows or knitted sweaters, but not quilts. There is always another bed, sofa, table, wall, birth, wedding, orContinue reading “E. ZERO WASTE/COLLECT”
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F. DECONSTRUCT/ RECYCLE/UPCYCLE
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us Just show up and get to work. All the best ideas come out of the work itself. Chuck Close One thing leads to another. ItContinue reading “F. DECONSTRUCT/ RECYCLE/UPCYCLE”
I. HIERARCHY OF SPIRIT
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing youContinue reading “I. HIERARCHY OF SPIRIT”
L. BUBBEWISDOM
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living BubbeWisdom ties together philosophical values, physical consciousness, psychological emotions and ephemeral spirit to improve the likelihood of right action in the right way at the right time. The first grandchild arrives along withContinue reading “L. BUBBEWISDOM”
K. GOOD, BETTER, BEST
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living Life gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every pieceContinue reading “K. GOOD, BETTER, BEST”
R. KABBALAH
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living Kabbalah is not a series of books or a series of theories, but a course in experience. It actually asks us to participate in the world in a new way. It asks usContinue reading “R. KABBALAH”
O. PIECES OF MEMORY
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living Dear Friend, Pieces of Memory, a series of fiber artworks grieving the monumental loss of my parents, will be on exhibition this fall at the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community CenterContinue reading “O. PIECES OF MEMORY”
W. LIFE ON LIFE’S TERMS
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living It helps to remember that our practice is not about accomplishing anything – not about winning or losing – but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what weContinue reading “W. LIFE ON LIFE’S TERMS”
H. I WAS THERE; NOW I AM HERE
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living When I proposed this exhibition to the JCC on September 21,1992, I had two goals. I wanted to explore the interactive quality of art quilts, my artistic medium for over 20 years. Also,Continue reading “H. I WAS THERE; NOW I AM HERE”
C. JEWS ARE NOT QUILTERS QUILTERS ARE NOT JEWISH
Taken from A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living by Louise Silk Available as an ebook: A Patchwork Life: The Hands-On Guide To Living Quilt making generally regarded as an American form, most European-born women learned the skill here. Jews tended to congregate in large cities, associating almost exclusively with other Jews. For most, quiltmaking was anContinue reading “C. JEWS ARE NOT QUILTERS QUILTERS ARE NOT JEWISH”
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