Quiltin' the Bible Road to Ecclestiastes 3:7

I'm an old girl, yet applying Scripture to every part of my life. I often cut and paste "Good Thoughts" and this is a reminder of what was said by some good writer years ago.

In the Old Testament, the writer states in Ecclestiastes 3:7 that there is “ a time to tear apart and a time to sew together…..a time to be silent and a time to speak”.  

Making a quilt is indeed a combination of tearing apart and piecing fabric back together. We use and re-use fabric so that nothing is really wasted or forgotten in the back of our closet. That old dress or pair of jeans is cut-away at the seams and we add new textures, buttons or lace so as to re-fashion it. So it is, the old remains familiar and yet brand new.

In this way, my quilted objects let me embrace the memory of yesterday - the kids, my mom, my father-in-law, my veteran.... A time and a season for everything...

This is authentic African or maybe Morocco... being hand quilted in the hoop by my sister-friend!

Below.... is Transcendence......  at least 2012 -- old and still shining!

Dear Friends....  I'm gonna post on that UFO quilt top... long unfinished black and white in the background...... exciting completion 2024

Alex Haley said.... and I know in my heart

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from.

Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.

No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness."