....i am looking at the details of a little quilt woven sample fragment i just completed. the little dots are secured in their little boxes. all safe. squares can be little boxes, little containers, neat and definable spaces to be. dots were a place to start and it would be a shame if they were a point to end. i like the woven surface because it make little squares, little boxes to put things in. but i also like the little boxes i see between the strips when they are opened up. the spaces between things are also little building blocks. this little fragment has turned into a small community of some kind. a community is a sampler of some kind, isn't it? a lot of safe beginnings, and a lot of little blocks to build that with but also some space to grow. past, present and future woven together. holding together. but by no means the end of anything.
i did a bit of writing for Art Quilting Studio over the last year. the what-iffing on quilt weaving will be my last article, to be published in the march issue. i hope you catch that one, it is the beginning of a personal journey where i try to take all the little pieces of things and merge them into some sort of whole.
today is friday, so i am off to mom's with a few scraps to put together. and magic on my mind.
thanks for all you kind comments on my last post.
