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- From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Quilts (was: Re: sowing bags)
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:48:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.183630.23309@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan) writes:
- >
- > In article <lipuccINN9jd@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >
- > > (If someone thinks this doesn't belong in this newsgroup, I'm sure we could
- > > come up with some pagan themes for quilts.)
- >
- > Who needs an excuse? What ideas do you have for a quilt?
-
- I was thinking of the different star patterns that can be made with patchwork.
- Eight and six pointed stars are easy to do (well, you have to sew fairly
- well to make an eight pointed star match up in the center, but the basic
- techniques are easy to do and the patterns are easy to find.) I still
- haven't found a five pointed star pattern, and haven't figured out how to
- draft one. I once saw something called a Moore-Penrose (?) tiling in a
- math journal that can make five pointed stars, but they didn't look like
- pentacles at all.
-
- (For the math nerds reading this, a quilt is nothing more or less than
- a tesselation of the plane. I've always wanted to check out the math
- journals for cool tilings to make quilts from, but the way my life
- is going post-baby, I probably won't do it.)
-
- Something else that caught my eye a while back was an Amish applique
- quilt to commemorate your dead. One corner of it contained a graveyard
- with little coffins with the name of the person embroidered on it, and
- the rest of the quilt had little images from the persons life, like
- symbols for their hobbies and interests, or scenes from their life.
- And they had a section with coffins of their living relatives that were
- just pinned to the quilt. When the person died, then they moved the
- coffin into the graveyard and sewed it down. Struck me as a little
- ghoulish.
-
- I guess another possibility is to have a white quilt and just draw
- whatever you like with the thread in a quilting pattern. My last
- quilt had eight pointed stars alternating with white squares, with
- pictures quilted into the white squares. Actually, I only finished
- one of the white squares, and since it takes about five hours to do
- one right, and there's about twenty left to do, it ain't gonna happen
- till the baby goes to college. But the plans were for these intricate
- star-crosses on the corners and the centers, and pictures of the zodiac
- in the others. Sigh. At least it's still useful without the fancy
- quilting.
-
- Dawn
-
- Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
- "Folk Song" by Bongwater
-