“There is no room for church mice in improv quilting. You have to own your ideas, your choices, and your determination.”
Source: East-Meets-West Quilts: Explore Improv with Japanese-Inspired Designs
“Take a good look at your fabric and intuit what it is saying to you.”
Source: East-Meets-West Quilts: Explore Improv with Japanese-Inspired Designs
“In winter when I put a quilt over myself its shadows on the wall seem to sway like an elephant.”
Source: लिहाफ
“Being scared wasn't a weakness. But letting it force my head down and my voice quiet was. Fear wasn't the enemy. It was the teacher.”
Source: Corrupt
“Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.”
Source: Living Proof
“Live for your love, [...] love your life, and raise hell.”
Source: Nightfall
“Grandma Grace used to tell Gracie,
“Every quilt has a story.”
The Gift, Spring 2022, WordCrafts Press.”
Source: The Gift: The California Quilt
“We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.” Anne Lamott.”
Source: The Gift: The California Quilt
“Maybe at the end of our lives we get a Ferris-Wheel vantage of the whole tapestry, the quilt laid flat, answering for its complexity. At the beginning we’re handed frayed and stained flowery bed sheets, a scrap of polka-dots, a snatch of strawberry print. Tattered as they are, there’s some sustaining sweetness in there.
The oldest pioneer quilts conceal bits of paper batting between their threadbare layers: postcards, recipes, clipped snippets of newspaper poetry. Every spare material had a part to play, fragments of experience and feeling arranged in a repeating pattern, little sewn sound bytes spinning ordered fractals.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“It’s one of the few places I don’t have overwhelming anxiety. Nobody looks at me strangely or thinks I’m different. I can read and listen to music and pet my cats. I can work and research. I can do whatever I want and feel like a normal fucking human.”
Source: My Torin