Handed Down

Also later this month, three of my quilts will be in the "Kansas Art Quilters: Covers Blown!" exhibit at the Sabatini Gallery in Topeka, Kansas. One of my quilts, called "Nine Patch Self Portrait", is featured on the website page. It is a picture of my hands holding fiber, which is a pretty good self portrait, since my life is very tangled in fiber. This quilt is made of ink jet printed fabric and is heavily machine quilted in parallel lines about 1/8 inch apart. Here is a detail
Also in this show is another quilt I did that has a hands theme called "Palmistry". It features a photo my parents took of a neighbor's child looking out her window to our yard. Where ever this gal is now, she is my age, but in this photo she is frozen in time.
Hands and ancestors are linked for me, as my fraternal grandmother told me that I have the unusually short pinkie fingers that "run in the family". My maternal grandmother had crippling arthritis that twisted her hands into unrecognizable, unusable appendages. This too, was said to "run in the family".
I secretly (until now, I guess) blame my poor typing skills on my short fingers, and every twinge makes me think I am getting arthritis. No doubt there is a very good chance neither of these things are true!