Wedding Quilt Update

This quilt is about gun and rape culture. The night sky part of the quilt is now quilted with text. I have quilted on statements, terms, and nouns that perpetuate rape and gun culture. It starts with “Lilith wanted what?” and ends with statements about the unchecked power of judges. Here is a still-thready glimpse:

Close up of Wedding Quilt (in progress), 2024. 

I still have lots of embroidery to do on the moon—it’s a whole new world, as I am not an “embroiderer” yet. The moon is at the center of the piece. She has a gun to her temple. I want the moon to look beautiful. I think of this piece as about how we treat the moon or the divine feminine. Can we remember the sanctity of the moon?