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”
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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”
T. THE ARTIST WITHIN
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 Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people’s dreams – their visions, really – we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involvedContinue reading “T. THE ARTIST WITHIN”
A. WHOMEVER DIES WITH THE MOST FABRIC WINS
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 By definition, a quilt has three layers of material joined together by hand and/or machine stitching. The top layer is an intricate composition of different multiple threads, fibers, and knots. On the back,Continue reading “A. WHOMEVER DIES WITH THE MOST FABRIC WINS”
P. From Under The Sheet
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 The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; 1963 The disappointmentContinue reading “P. From Under The Sheet”
A. TRUTH
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 …feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach usContinue reading “A. TRUTH”
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