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The Shosholoza Quilt festival 2008 was held in Gauteng South Africa in September. My entry for the Tri-nations Competition was chosen as one of the 30 that will travel to Australia and New Zealand. The theme for this competition was "My Place". My inspiration came from a dream I had after praying about it. It also received 3rd place. Here is my quilt.
"Faith in Bloom" (Through running rivers, planted seeds, steps in faith, produces resurrected blooms) The entry for the Amakaya challenge where we were given a piece of fabric to incorporate and the theme was "The various places you feel at home" can be seen below.
Amakaya Challenge ("Where Jesus abides any place feels like home") Miniature quilt
(Stairway to Heaven)
This art quilt is dedicated to my son Jody. During his severe hospital event this quilt was born. It took me 10 days to complete. It is an art quilt which tells a story about how I was feeling during this time. The top squares are dull, lifeless and so very similar. I felt like I had been placed in a box for so long. My life, my purpose and my hope was limited. The small embellishments seen on the top three rows are small squares of beads and stuffed pillows. This was because people seemed to dictate how I should be, how I should act and how to perform at work. Slowly, I started to realize that I could not fit into these little boxes and I could not conform to the societal behaviour expected of me. I started exploring with my fabric and became slightly more colourful, manipulating fabric, and embellishment became more subtle, more elaborate and more detailed. I started feeling like I was breaking out the box and instead of accepting what the doctors were telling us that my son was leaving us, that his system was shutting down, I saw his will to survive and realized then - who were these people willing him to close his eyes just because he is handicapped and a "problem". We stayed at his bedside praying and willing him to live, demanding a food drip be inserted into him somehow - it could not go through his nostrils due to severe swelling. A few hours later, after many hours of crying, holding him and praying God chose to send him back to us. I felt free for the first time, and then the attachment of 3 rows of little pillows became bigger pillows than the initial ones on the top 2 rows. These were embellished with seed beads, designs sewn into them and joined together. This was when I became "me". It is okay to be different, not to give up, and to believe in God! And to enjoy what we have been given.
"Underwater" Teddy Bear Picnic (self designed) (Fabric weaving class taken with Mackay Cilliers)
Stained glass Fabric painted birds (1st attempt)
The Cross of Jesus (Emma's 1st quilt - at age 9 yrs) STUMPWORK EMBROIDERY
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