The God Box Quilt

Visitors to our show stopped to admire the God Box Quilt made by Helen Wolf. Helen so enjoyed Mary Lou Quinlan's book, that she made a small quilt with the book title. Visitors to the show wrote little prayers, wishes, or thoughts, on slips of paper and put them in the box on the quilt. After the show the quilt was sent to Mary Lou. Be sure to check out her website at: www.thegodboxproject.com and click on the blog.

And here is Helen writing one of the enclosures

Anne, the Quilt Hunter

I confess that I am here under false pretenses.  I am not a quilter – never have been, never wanted to be one, never hope to be one.  I am, however, a Quilt-Hunter. (Maybe I had better explain that term before the quilters come after me with their sharp needles.)

As a teacher, I learned to hunt down and capture elusive themes, symbols, and patterns in prose and poetry.  As an academic critic, I write about those “captures” so that others can enjoy them.  When I became involved with putting on a quilt show for Pearl S. Buck’s charities, I realized that many of the novels I had been reading for years contain quilts as symbols…and the hunt was on.

And what a successful hunt it has turned out to be.  Quilt references seemed to explode into view when I sharpened my critical eye to spot them.  They cowered behind the most illustrious names in romance writing and hid deep in the recesses of cozy mysteries but we – my companion-editors in the quest – sought them out and brought them to the light of day so that quilter-readers could enjoy them

The result is our book – Writers Who Quilt – Quilters Who Write – recently published and available on Amazon.  Even as we finished that book, I kept discovering how authors use quilts as symbols and literary devices…and so, the never-ending quilt hunt goes on.

Stay tuned for the Blog of the Quilt-Hunter as she tracks down this elusive quarry in all sorts of written material.