how each quilter, as desired, is able to discover their own unique, bespoke style. As we hone our skills, come to understand color – more on this in a moment – and discover part of the quilt making process that makes our heart sing with great delight, the more our quilts begin to reveal who we are as human beings.
Developing an understanding of color takes time and practice and greater understanding of what we see around us, one practicality of color is that (hear me out) we are responsible to no one for our color choices. We get to pick. We can ask others for insight and at the same time listen to our own gut for this thing we are co-creating with God.
I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Joen Wolfrom
Let Your Quilts Sing with Color
and
Colorfully Joen.
Most of us grew up learning about and working with the Red/Green/Blue color system. One thing I recently learned about this is that when red, blue, and green light come together they create white light. This is enlightening. Combining red, blue, and green paint makes some shade of gray/brown. When Joen started learning about color and prisms she learned something really fascinating: that the three primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow and that from here color mixing gets really very cool. Further when the light of the prisms come together instead of making a complete circle of color, the colors actually begin combining to create new colors. The best thing, of course, is gleaning wisdom from a woman who reluctantly embraced color and design exploring what they do, and what she can do with them. Joen also picked up photography as a hobby. One thing that I know about creatives is that one hobby tends to feed and give life to another.
As quilt makers we do discover who we are and what we like through the process of making, finding what works and what doesn’t for the work. Quilting is a gift – a talent so to speak – that is worthy of exploring in all its depths.
One thing I appreciate about prayer is. . . .
Much like quilting it is a practice and process and a relationship. A more prudent way to write that sentence: Prayer is a relationship with a practice and process that develops over time, shifts wildly now and again, deepens almost unnoticeably and offers us space to breathe, Come Holy Spirit – Breath of God.
Fr Joe Krupp – #talkedtotheboss offers an insightful gift of a homily on humility. It’s so good.
Prayer is a relationship, a longing, one that invites me into places I frequently don’t want to go. Just this morning I listened to Fr. Joe’s homily prior to coming here to write. In re-reading the words I had a realization about a recent conversation. What comes up in the pondering: pride and not in a particularly healthy way. This goes a bit further into the coeur of my being. It is always difficult to admit that (frequently, things I do or say come from a place of disordered pride. Think “lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life.” Ouch. Yet this is a good thing to discover in myself to hand it over to the Trinity.
Teri learns to play guitar part 2
Prayer permits me the opportunity to listen to when the Trinity speaks. Prayer allows me to leave all the things in the hands of the Father and listen for my part. Prayer tunes me into the music, lets me sway and move freely. Prayer brings me to the place of imagery and experience, like when I had the experience of the Father holding my forearms and swinging me around like a four-year-old.
In the next few days I’ll write about one of my favorite Scripture passages.
Happy Passiontide!
Teri
A Quilter's Heart 