Sharing your light helps keeps to keep all of our lights ignited.Īnd watch for Soul Mending Society posts throughout the year. Please as you continue mending leave comments. Thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever Soul Mending Society. Who knows what the future holds? I don’t.īut as we work together to mend ourselves, our families, and our communities I know we can stitch together something truly amazing.
Not the quilt I had planned on for this time in my life but a beautiful one none the less.
So while it had felt like life had handed me a pile of scraps…as it turned out it all just needed to be stitched together into a beautiful quilt. These long, beautiful days now void of appointments, engagements, and obligations allowed me to gather everyone together “around the hearth” for long family dinners….games without end…family story time…hours in the garden…things we wouldn’t have done otherwise. The next morning I pinned up the quilt top to the wall in the basement and took the picture that is on the cover of the pattern:Īnd I sat there thinking for a long time.Īnd knew that for me…even though we had, and were going to miss out on things both social and financial for the next while…that I had been given a gift of time with my family. When push comes to shove where do we all long to be? The heart and hearth of the home…a place of safety from the outside world…the place where you are always welcomed and loved… …but I will say that traditionally Log Cabin quilt blocks have a red square in the center…representing the heart and hearth of the home. ….on episode one of Stitched (our quilting podcast)… I won’t give you the complete version of the history of that block, although you can hear a lot about it HERE: I started thinking about that quilt top I had just finished…it was a Log Cabin pattern.
But instead there we were all together, safe and snug and happy in our home. It was a random week night…a night when we would have spent our time at different events like rock climbing, play practice, piano lessons, or band. After games we all were piled onto the couch watching a movie. I left it on the cutting table that night and headed upstairs with the family to make homemade pizzas and again play board games. (Although…you will notice in the bottom left corner…I didn’t have quite enough white…so I added some other random scraps to complete that border.) Then I rooted around, found, and cut up white scraps for sashing and sewed some of the blocks into a quilt top. Then late in the evening we would head upstairs to make dinner together and play board games or sit on the patio and talk.Īfter a week or so I found I had a STACK of crazy Log Cabin Quilt blocks all made from scraps. They would work on their homework and reading and I would sew. For days I sat down there in the sewing room with my kids cutting and sewing and cutting and sewing. Only that I wanted everything in the quilt to be from my scrap piles. Piles of masks….for the retirement center, the workers at the local grocery store, family members, and friends…and thought about all the things that wouldn’t happen this year for my family: concerts, performances, plays, shows, classes, lessons, graduations, parties, vacations, etc. Sometime in March after schools closed, there were runs on items at the store, and most everything went on pause…I sat in my basement and sewed masks. Today as we wrap up the first ever month of The Soul Mending Society I felt like it was the right time to share a quilt that will always and forever be a memorable one to me…the quilt that I made at the beginning of the Covid-19 Quarantine. The Heart of the Home: Log Cabin Quilt Pattern
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