I am a quilter. A totally addicted-beyond-all-hope quilter. And, I often ask myself WHY? Why do I prefer quilting to all other activities? Why do I prefer quilting to cooking and eating, playing music, watching movies, and sometimes to my family :)....?
The answers come in small revelations....while I am quilting. Quilting connects me with the universe. As I build my creation, thoughtfully choosing each shape and color, I watch a miniature world emerge from previously uncut cloth. The shapes and colors take on movement and meaning. The finished quilt is batted and bound, transforming it into a small niche of our of human habitat and creating a place of warmth, security, and rest from the world within it's folds.
I watch my aging parents warm themselves, my loving husband nap, and my grandchildren construct immense forts and hiding places with my quilts. I feel connected to my foremothers, indeed to all mothers everywhere, and their own pleasures. And as the sunset of my ancestor's lives brought on the sunrise of my own life, I look to the past, the present, the future as the earth gives me yet another thankful day to live and love and quilt!
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