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The Quilting Path, A Guide to Spiritual
Discovery Through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah by Louise Silk. 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.
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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 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 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 applique
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 Applique 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." -HiIlary 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 |