Quilting - what does it say?

Doesn't it feel so good to finish a project?
This wall-hanging has finally made it to the finishing post....
What does a quilt say? This one has lots of personal meaning for me so I warn you now, don't read on if you don't like waffle!! :-)


I've called this 'The Divide'. It started life as a regular block patchwork using up a white jelly roll pack and a wonderful blue batik bought at the museum in Swaledale last year.
Having finished the piecing I simply wasn't happy and it took a couple of weeks before the decision came to cut across the whole diagonally and stitch it back together again - which shunted the whole join across.
Why?
Because the nice neat steps of the patchwork, how we think we build our lives, did not reflect my life anymore, my life had been sliced across just the same as my 'husband' looked to leave me for another.....
The disjointed nature of the quilt now told of my life so much better!!!

I stitched a pattern of rippling water across the join to show how life flows on - coloured it a little by hand, stitched on beads to represent the sparkle that life could still have - I hope, and added little crochet flakes to show the little bits of ice my heart still carries and that I hope spread no further!

The two main borders are my version of an original celtic design,
it is very 'heart' like and I used it to depict the two hearts of our relationship moving in different directions......... but in the bottom left hand corner you can see where we are still joined by our two children.

The white background is for the spirit of human nature, the blue is the colour for the throat, for communication - how I strive to communicate through my stitching.....

The reverse is a piece of material I hand painted, the colours of the sunrise - you know how I love the sunrises around here!!
It depicts for me the words of a vangelis song I love -

'My sun shall rise in the east,
and so shall my heart be at peace'

I hope so, sometime, somewhere.


Thanks for looking in and I hope I've shown that ladies doing their quilting......
can mean so much more!! :-)