"From the ashes we can build another day" | |
| Size 25-1/4" square; machine pieced & quilted -- The challenge for 2001 was to make a quilt based on any quote, lyric or poem that included at least one 9-patch block. I bounced ideas around for almost a year, then decided to just get working on a 9-patch design, using my favorite batik fabrics. I began cutting Sept. 11th...just before the terrorist attacks on the US. When I finally got back to work and completed the top a couple of days later, it didn't look as I had originally pictured it but more chaotic, reflecting the chaos in NYC and the US. Its name, "From the ashes we can build another day," comes from a line in a Moody Blues song, "The Story in Your Eyes" which was recorded in 1971. The quilting includes an outline in gray of the NYC lower Manhattan skyline before Sept. 11th; butterflies, curlicues & a dove; and in the border, olive branches, doves, a rainbow, rising sun, and a tree stump. |
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