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Author_Louise Silk
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fabric
Jewish crafts
Jewish mysticism
Jewish tradition
Judaism
Kabbalah
Kabbalah traditions
quilt-making
quilting
quilting traditions
spiritual books about crafting
spiritual crafting
spiritual discovery
spiritual journey
spiritual rejuvenation
spiritualism
thread
traditional Jewish crafts
Product details
- ISBN 9781683364160
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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 …
Louise Silk has been quilting professionally for over thirty years. In addition to commissions and exhibitions, she teaches quilting classes and workshops and is an artist member of Studio Art Quilt Associates and a life member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. One of her five solo quilt exhibits, called I Was There, Now I Am Here, traveled to four venues around the United States. Her website, www.silkquilt.com, contains a color gallery of this book's projects and many others.
Louise Silk is available to speak on the following topics:
The Quilting Path: A Guide to Spiritual Discovery through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah
Pieces of Memory
Transformation: Reuse of Materials for Meaning and Memory
I Was There: Now I'm Here: Self Discovery through Quilting
The Sound of a Needle: The Quilt Maker’s Voice
