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| New York Beauty |
This week I’ve been
having a bit of a sort-out and catch-up week.
Photos of accounts, admin and business meetings are not very exciting, so
instead, here are some images of ‘humility’ quilts I designed for an article in
Popular Patchwork a number of years ago.
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| 54 or Fight! |
Quilting is full of
lovely myths and one of these is that Amish quilters believe that as only God
is perfect, it would be a sin for their quilts to be faultless so they add an
imperfection. To my mind, this is the
ultimate sin of pride, to believe you have to add an error because otherwise it
would be flawless. I can’t believe that
this attitude would sit well with what I know of Amish communities and indeed
it seems unlikely and most quilt historians have decided it isn’t true. However, it is a nice idea and perhaps it
came about as an excuse by quilters who had made an obvious error in a quilt,
rather than admit their mistake, put it down to a humility block.
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| Irish Chain |
So for a bit of
fun, here are some ‘humility’ quilts I designed – each one has a mistake in the
pattern – can you spot them all? I designed them in EQ7. And looking at them now, I'm not sure I can spot all the errors. Hope you can!
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| Mariner's Compass |
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| Flower Basket |
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| Bear's Paw |
1 comment:
I'm pretty useless at spotting errors, even when I'm looking for them.
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