the drawing is a combination of two pics, two diagrams that Faith sent. There is a third, a color coded. All those You Tubes and there could have been
this.
and then….Deb's short video….her voice, her hand, her Cloth. and she says: nothing can match. Here i go.
I cannot believe how LUCKY i am. and i go forward with confidence that i CAN DO IT. and curiosity, Big Curiosity about it all. That curiosity feeling really Good. I am a Rocket Scientist.
Ha
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And there are galaxies to explore. 🙂
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Yes you can do this and you will and it will be yours and it will be a living quilt for not only you but la familia.
I was very fortunate in 2008 to see an exhibit of Gee’s Bend quilts when I lived in TN. The exhibit was, “Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond”. The women of Gee’s bend used what they had on hand since it would be many years late when they could purchase fabric AND you will use what fabric you have on hand to make your vibrant log cabin quilt.
Mary Lee Bendolph said this: ” I didn’t have nothing to piece the quilt with. It was some jeans, pants, some overall pants, shirts, sleeves off the shirt- the good part that I could find off of there- I put it in that quilt, if Mama wasn’t using it. It didn’t matter what it was, as long as it was something to go in. I remember I picked a piece from out in the road, it was a raggedy old shirt what the wagon had rolled over. And it was muddy. It was a kind of blue, a gray-blue Indian-head cloth. I washed all of the mud out of it and hung it on the wire. When it got dry, I put it in the quilt.”
Later she said this: “Old cloths carry something with them. You can feel the presence of the person who used to wear them. It has a spirit in them. Even if I don’t know the person, I know someone who wore those pants and it feels lovely and warm to me.”
This book is a treasure, with many, many photos of Gee’s Bend quilts and their vibrancy and depth, just leap off the page. I would remove each page and frame them but they belong so rightly together in this book.The quilt makers in this book are Mary Lee Bendolph, Louisiana P. Bendolph, Essie Bendolph Pettway and artists Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley and Aolar Mosely.
The quotes that I listed are from the catalog book of the exhibit, Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s bend Quilts and Beyond, Essays by Joanne Cubbs, Matt Arnett and Dana-Friis-Hansen. Edited by Paul Arnett and Eugene W. Metcalf Jr. Tinwood Books, Atlanta/Austin Museum of Art.
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Marti – I know I have written this before, but I had tears in my eyes when I walked into a Gee’s Bend quilt exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Art several years ago … and yes, I bought the catalog afterward
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Grace – I have no doubt that your log cabin will be like none other … can’t wait to see what you make of it
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I’m so glad my diagrams helped. The square spiral is what made it ‘click’ for me–along with learning to piece crazy quilts, which is the same except the pieces can be any size and shape (even pieced), and the spiral doesn’t need to be square.
Looking forward to seeing your quilt.
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it will be a fine one !
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That diagram really says it all. I am envisioning your cloth liberated from the 13 bags and taking off on this galactic mission!
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Let the fun begin .. you’re in for an amazing adventure 😘
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Log cabin, and log cabin inspired, are my favorites. You have some great teachers.
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Yay for an adventure!
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