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Le'ia - I Make the Quilt and the Quilt Makes Me |
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Written by Martha Marques
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 15:20 |
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Le'ia was a quilt of transformation for me. This is when I realized that I make the quilt and the quilt makes me. I started this quilt after I had been diagnosed with cancer. The prognosis was not good.....six months or so is what I was told. It takes me eight months to a year to make a quilt this size so you can see where my head was at. I was being defiant. But Lei'a is not a quilt of defiance. It is a quilt meant to teach me about Abundance. I wanted to feel the Abundance of all the time in the world, all the love, and light and health and hope rolling out endlessly before me. So I chose to dye the background for this quilt the delicate colors of sunrise. And I chose Ulu or Breadfruit as the symbol. In Hawaii a Breadfruit tree symbolizes Plenty. Plenty of food, plenty of love and life, enough for you and the neighbors and the strangers passing by.....more than enough for everyone. It took me eight months to make Lei'a and there are about 250,000 tiny hand stitches in this quilt. And every stitch was a healing one. |
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