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Psychoanalysis of a Quilt

Thinking Through Quilts
Tending the threads that pull me forward
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Queens Quilt Part 1: The Wise Woman
How the wise woman of this quilt revealed her flaws and gave me the faith to teach again.
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Straight Enough
How to Sew Straight Seams (and Why It’s Harder Than It Looks)
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The Raw and the Stitched
The Journey from Inspiration to Fabric and Thread: Designing the Antigone Quilt
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The Quilt and the Stain
Stains and the Strange Doctrine of Original Sin
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Faith in the Language of the Quilt
On Quilting, Rigidity, and the Miracles That Take Shape
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The Unnatural Dyer
What drives us to create quilts, colors, and culture?
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On the Mend
How our wounds lead to the poetry of the quilt
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Quilt Critique
How to write about quilts
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The Quilt and the Pigeon
Quilt in the home and the museum
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A Hysterical Quilter
The Birth of the Scandinavian Ohio Star Quilt
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The Saturated Quilt
quilting for a sense of play, wonder, and sensuality
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