So, it's of course been to long since I have blogged.  I thought I might start adding pictures of things every now and then.  This is Keeping it together 1.  I remember at the quilt guild in San Fransisco when we had a speaker who showed quilts of hers that were well I thought not my liking.  Now after all these years I understand.  She talked about how this huge quilt with this one little block plan square was how she was feeling boxed in.  I thought how strange to think of quilting and therapy together. 

Like I said, I get it.  This quilt was made when we were going through a rough patch.  We were leaving our home to move in with my mother to take care of her.  When she needed us to be there.  I felt stretched and pulled apart and I kept thinking, I just have to keep it together.  Well I did and we all survived. 

I remember how in High School I got an F in art class because I told the teacher he didn't know what it was to be an artist. I said and I quote "art is not you being pushed through me it is me pushing through me"  I guess sometime we need to relearn lessons, even one's we taught ourselves. 

I have been searching for these last few weeks, trying different things to see what moves me what I feel pushing out of me.  I keep thinking well I have this or that to finish and I want to drag myself make to those so that they can be done.  I am starting to think that if I won't finish it because I am sick of it, it will never be completed. 

So for today I go back to just keeping it together.