V's Version

One of the things that I love best about making a quilt is doing the research for it. I end up learning about different cultures and time periods and color theories and artistic styles. Sometimes, as in Beyond the Sixth, the history is placed directly into the finished product. Sometimes, as in the quilt that I began researching in earnest today, the finished product will only have a hint of the research. I look forward to learning about the Nepali people and landscape. I have already learned more than I knew about Mount Everest and Buddhism and I have no idea where the quilt will take me.

Today, I handed over my most recent quilt (Sweet Sixteen) to the mother who commissioned it. She is an aquaintance (a neighbor with whom I had had maybe three brief interactions) who happened to be evangelical christian. I researched the churches where she and her daughter, for whom the quilt was commissioned, attend. I put pockets made from her clothing on the quilt so that her family can place prayers inside. I used the symbolism of the cross. I tried to honor images that meant something to them because I am trying to be a conduit for the quilt - letting the process unfold in a way that will ultimately be good. In any event, she liked it and that means a lot to me.

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On another subject ENTIRELY - does anyone out there know anything about manga comics, anime, horror cartoons and / or children's sci fi with somewhat feminist story lines? How about story lines that are not offensive or vulgar? I'm having a dreadful time finding a way to compromise with Pk and his taste for entertainment that depicts violcence.....waaaaaaaaaaa