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KeepOnSinging wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

april6263 wrote:

HI Kos

 
HI, KOS

Hi Jetmama,
I know that you are already logged off, but am waving hi in hopes that you see this tomorrow.  Was fascinated by your and Gunnerk's conversation about quilting.  I do not quilt.  Best I can do is sew hems, mend seams, and sew on buttons.  But I do love beautiful quilts, and I loved the musical "Quilters."  My daughter played a supporting lead role in this show when she was in college.  I was so taken with the depth of the dialogue that I ended out going every night of the ten days that it was performed.  It reminded me that in 1977 at the beginning of our family's journey dealing with the mental illness of a father and husband, my mom insisted that my husband and I take a four day vacation to Berea, Kentucky where I saw a magnificent display of quilts from throughout Kentucky and the United States.  I looked at quilts and quilting with different eyes after that.  

Each gorgeous quilt was different.  And as I watched this musical ten nights in a row in 1992, the closing lines from Sarah, the main character described the quilt making process and described what I believe was at least part of what St. Paul meant when he said that we were "to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling" and it reminded (what a tame word) me of seeing those magnificent quilts in Berea, Kentucky in 1977.  
    The musical is about pioneer women traveling west and the grief and joy and very difficult decisions they have to make.  These are among the closing lines.

     Sarah:  "And He showed me a river of pure water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb."
     Daughters:  "And on either side of the river there was a Tree of Life....., and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations....."
      Sarah:   "You can't always change things.  Sometimes you don't have no control over the way things go.  Hail ruins the crop or the fire burns you out.  And then you're given just so much to work with in a life, and you have to do the best you can with what you got.  The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy....that's just what's given to you.  Your fate.  But the way you put them together is your business. You can put them together in any order you like.  Piecing is orderly."

So I thank you and Gunnerk for bringing these memories to the front of my mind.  I was even able to find these lines from "Quilters", lines that I had tucked away over twenty years ago. 

 
Awwwwww, KOS, that is so kind!  Thanks for sharing your memories of the quilt show and the musical.  I think my interest in quilting is tied to its history--and then to my own.  My BA is in history and I love the pioneering spirit.  Perhaps I was born about 75 years too late--but appreciation of what the pioneers went through is no doubt more nostalgic than it would have been actually living the life.  Yes, piecing is orderly--and it is also creative.  I have grown to love scrappy quilts the best because they represent how pioneer women went about their craft--using up the leftovers, no two ever being the same.  Of course, quilting goes back to Europe and probably other cultures well before the birth of America--but the utilitarian spirit and the spirit of America show up in our quilting compared with that of other countries where quilts were more limited to the elite classes.

My paternal grandmother first introduced me to sewing--by just watching her and then being the recipient of matching dresses she made for my sister and me.  Later in her life (she died in 1965) she made a number of quilts from a collection of fabrics she hand selected; she only made either "Grandmother's Flower Garden" or "Double Wedding Ring".  I have since "inherited" her leftovers and am in the process of putting together more flowers from pieces she had cut before she died (!).  Gma's flower garden pretty much has to be hand pieced (all hexagons) so it is a good take-along project.  I hope to eventually have enough flowers to put together a quilt for each of our 4 granddaughters.  My gosh--I really need to get MOVING!!  HAHA

I just love that our interests seem to all mesh and/or bring up fond memories in one another.

Last edited by JetmamaDiDi (8/22/2014 6:11 pm)

CEK40 wrote:

That look before the twizzles....

 
SMASHING!  I just love that dance--and you could soooo see their feelings toward each other that nite.  Thanks, CEK!

CEK40 wrote:

OMG luv you have got to be kidding...did we just do that again????? LOL  LOL

LOL............aren't we something??? LOL      I love it when we post the same info.......it is like our "thing" to do. hehehe.  Twin sisters, I tell you.