Making
Quilting
Scraps become a geometry. The geometry becomes a blanket somebody sleeps under.
It neighbors weaving, family history, and the museums that finally hung bedcovers on the wall.
The skill is matching a pattern without sanding the story out of the cloth.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside quilting reads “scraps with a geometry.” It tends to meet weaving, and memoir.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford. Read it beside quilting: A case for work that pushes back, written by someone who left a desk for a bench.