Rita's quilt is complete!

March 25, 2020 8:52 AM

“This was a call to action. Aristotle said the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - and that’s how this feels. This is so much bigger than these fabric pieces.” Rita's Quilt, previously on Metafilter...
posted by dfm500 (5 comments total)

Oh I'm so glad!

this is just beautiful

Women getting together could do amazing, worldly things - finding each other and finding their voice. I like to think she’d have seen this as passing this on to a younger generation. I’m sure she’s smiling, wherever she is.”

Though "Shannon... always tries to complete unfinished projects she comes across which have been started by someone who has died. “I feel like I’m doing something to make sure their soul is resting,” she says." gave me a bit of pause. I have so many unfinished crafting projects that I just got lazy about or flung somewhere because they weren't coming out how I'd hoped... I'd hate to think someone years from now would one day go through my estate and find them and think my soul even remembered that time I tried to crochet a French horn...

So glad it's going to a museum.
posted by Mchelly at 9:07 AM on March 25, 2020 [4 favorites]

Changing the world (or some part of it) one stitch at a time.
posted by TrishaU at 4:12 PM on March 25, 2020

It’s beautiful. What a lovely story.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 6:10 PM on March 25, 2020

wow! thanks for this post!
posted by dhruva at 7:25 PM on March 25, 2020

Thanks for the update, so lovely to see it finished!
posted by ellieBOA at 3:17 AM on March 26, 2020