If Quilts Could Talk

If you have been following the news this week, you may have heard it was Bell Let's Talk Day yesterday (January 28).  Check out this story about Ottawa Redblack's Nick Arbuckle, and the meaning of a very special quilt his mother made for him during her struggle with mental health. This is an excellent example of quilt as an archive of memory and love, but also as a meaningful reminder of the importance of talking about and raising awareness of mental illness.    Nick Arbuckle: The Quilt

After the exciting cultural and historical connections made through investigations on my previous quilts, this fun orange quilt seems a little 'light' in historical significance.  I was expecting big things from this quilt because the details of the binding, patterns and colours are so exciting.

After delving into the log cabin pattern of my Antelope Canyon  quilt last week, I was excited to discover more about the archived cultural and historical moments embedded in my other quilts. 

Can you believe this beauty of a quilt?     This week's quilt taught me so much about the possibilities of the quilt as a record, and of the invisible threads that weave through a quilt pattern and back through time to moments in history. 

How can you archive history through quilting?