Hunger Moon, Wild Moon, Ice Moon stealth,
in quiet preparation I love my self,
Brigit, Persephone, Diana, Kuan Yin,
Help to cleanse and heal what’s within.
-Dallas Jennifer Cobb
In February, I watched for the moon for days before and days after the after the actual full moon event, to no avail. The sky, for days, was completely shrouded in clouds; not even a peek at a star could be seen. I imagine before the modern days of electric lights or even the earlier gas powered lights, these nights would have been very, truely black.
The Quickening is when tree sap begins to flow again and the Earth starts to awaken. Each year, there are seeds that sprout too early while their brothers and sisters sleep just a little deeper down in the dirt. This quilt is about those ambitious seeds, dreaming of the coming growing season, and jumping the gun, awakening too early.
Three little seeds (apple) are nestled within their own little full moons, but one has jumped the gun, so excited by his ambitious dreams that he popped out a little bit too early. I machine embroidered the tiny seedling onto its moon first, then attached each of the 3 moons to the quilt. I free motion quilted the piece being careful not to let the quilting lines touch the seeds that were still ‘sleeping’. Finally, I attached the seeds and tiny glass seed beads to give the impression of stars in the sky.
This piece will be shown at Artomatic 2009, but will not be offered for sale on Etsy—it has already found a permanent home.
