Aunt Jane asks her niece:
Did you ever think, child, how much piecin' a quilt's like livin' a life?
Then she explains in plain, heartfelt language about picking out calico "caliker" and patterns.
The Lord sends us pieces ..... (she says)
but we can cut 'em out and put 'em together
pretty much to suit ourselves ....
pretty much to suit ourselves ....
there's a heap more in the cuttin' and the sewin'
than there is in the caliker.
I made this queen-size quilt from thrifted fabric;
Suzanne Cady, friend, machine-quilted it for me
The text is from
A Quilter's Wisdom: Conversations with Aunt Jane
based on a text by Eliza Calvert Hall
Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994
