The Patchwork Quilt
I was surfing through some of my favorite blogs and I ran across the most beautiful poem at Waterrose Handcrafted Obsessions. She has kindly given me permission to copy it here. This poem was written by Carrie A. Hall and Rose G. Kretsinger.
The quilt so lightly thrown across her bed–
The quilt that keeps her loved ones warm–
Is woven of her love and dreams and thread.
When I have spoken to you of its beauty–
“A mere hodge-podge of calico,” you said,
“A necessity of homely fashioning,
Just a covering made of cloth and thread.”
I new you’d missed the message hidden there
By hands that fashioned quilts so long ago.
Ambition and assurance are the patches
And the stitches of a quilt are love, I know.
I think a quilt is something very real–
A message of creation wrought in flame;
With grief and laughter sewing into its patches
I see beyond the shadows, dream and aim.
One of my favorite poems and my favorite past-time.
From: The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, by Carrie A. Hall and Rose G. Kretsinger, written in 1935.
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