Quilting is the miracle of giving new life
and purpose to
fabric scraps. It can rejuvenate your
spiritual life too.
We affirm that life is here and now in our
quilting and its ability to enable our journey. It is the
vehicle for our continuing movement along our lifetime of
efforts. Our quilts allow both the goal and the process in one
magnificent creation after another. Our quilting generates the
perfect combination of faith with action, hope with realism,
and the universal with the particular, so that we are blissful
and grateful in our co-creation experiences.
—from the Conclusion
What can you learn about yourself through
quilt making? What deeper symbolism can you find in the act of
cutting and piecing? How can this simple activity help you make
your way down a spiritual path?
Delve into these questions and more in
this imaginative book that will become your spiritual friend,
your teacher and your sanctuary. Contemporary quilter Louise
Silk takes you through her own quilting journey to discover how
the process of making a quilt can be used to explore and
strengthen your own spirituality. Each chapter introduces a
universal human attribute organized according to the mystical
tradition of Kabbalah, relates it to a personal life practice
and then applies the attribute and the practice to an original
quilt project.
Anyone from the novice to the needlework
expert—and from any faith tradition—will be
nourished and gratified by the patchwork and appliqué
experiences offered in this creative, engaging book. These ten
projects, carefully designed for you, include:
• One-Patch Utility
Quilt • Log Cabin Quilt • String Pieced Pillows
• Straight Furrows Baby
Blanket • Quilting Carry-all Bag • Patchwork Prayer
Shawl
• Folk Art
Appliqué Quilt • Remembrance Crazy Quilt •
T-shirt Quilt
• Rail Fence Signature
Tablecloth • Plus dozens of variations …
“[Shows us how] creativity and the
construction process enable a quilt maker to engage in an
internal dialogue which can lead to a multitude of intangible
personal enrichments and an awareness of the spirituality that
is within each of us.”
—Hilary
Morrow Fletcher, project director
of Quilt National
“Meanders along a double lane of
creative expression and celebration of life. At each stop,
readers learn from the artist’s own hard-won life lessons
and receive inspiration both practical and sublime.”
—Eleanor
Levie, author of American Quiltmaking: 1970–2000
“The simple tools of thread and
fabric both cover and reveal a soul. Here oneness with the
Divine is not a castle in the air, but a tangible and useable
thing, a way of uniting heaven and earth. Quilting is a kind of
prayer in action. If you read and use this book, you will find
that it is your own soul that is revealed.”
—Jason
Shulman, founder of A Society of
Souls and author of The Instruction
Manual for Receiving God
“A compelling invitation to
intersect our own spiritual paths with the power of quilting.
Deftly shows how we can explore further dimensions of
understanding by literally creating whole cloth from the pieces
of our stories. Access to unique and meaningful possibilities
opened up as I read.”
—Linda
Skolnik, coauthor of The Knitting Way: A Guide to Spiritual
Self-Discovery
