Comments on: What is a Quilting Sword? http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/ slashing and sewing image text and illusion Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wind http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-1392 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:01:27 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-1392 thanks barbie!

]]> By: Barbie Kanta http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-1379 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:32:01 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-1379 Thank you so very much for a delightful hour or so perusing your “quilts”, which was my intended search. I will be back for more and currently will be sharing answer “D. …from an old Korean saying, “Even in war, a sword is more useful when making quilts.”

]]> By: Wind http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-287 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:57:52 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-287 natasch, that’s just beautiful imagery. straight from the quilter’s pen.

i totally forgot about ‘syzygist’. now that you mentioned it i gotta get that in my blog somehow.

]]> By: Natascha http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-280 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:39:14 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-280 PS I’m glad you took out the “syzygist” ;)

]]> By: Natascha http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-279 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:38:37 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-279 I love your meditations on the quilting sword… and as a quilter I agree that destruction needs to happen in order to piece together a new creation… the needle and scissors are swords… and the quilter is a warrior cutting apart conventions to make something unforeseen, unexpected, unique… and the newly made fabric can be a sheath for the sword. Maybe it’s similar to the way we cut apart our old habits and patterns to fabricate new ways of being, and those new ways wrap around us, made by our power, protecting our power, then ripped apart and recycled by our power when we don’t need them anymore. Hm! Fun to speculate…. thank you for the inspiration!

]]> By: Wind http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-253 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:33:41 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-253 i like your interpretation of the symbolism. it is a kind of destruction/creation cycle. a shiva/kali sort of thing. there’s a little bit of breaking something down in the act of creation. and there’s a bit of order that comes out of destruction.

]]> By: blissfromtheabyss http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/#comment-252 Mon, 26 May 2008 07:31:30 +0000 http://quiltingsword.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-252 An Aikido mention…nice! I studied Aikido for about 4 years; the thing that really sold me was when I learned that it could be translated to “the Way of Harmony” or even “the Way of Love”. It was an eye-opening experience for me.
The term “Quilting Sword” has a wonderfully nuanced symbolism: The sword is associated with exacting destruction and the quilt is all about making a wholeness out of disparate pieces. It seems to be similar to Aikido in that the goal is to use different energies to produce a harmonious outcome…or maybe I’m just navel-gazing too much!

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