{"id":37378,"date":"2017-08-06T06:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37378"},"modified":"2017-08-03T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:15:51","slug":"i-have-a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/i-have-a-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have a Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I posted a Spark about having a secret<\/a>. It was purely coincidental with the project I was working on.<\/p>\n

\"Down<\/a>
Down the Drain: basted and ready to quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I needed to work on this project, but I did not want comments or to provoke the storm I know will come with this post. I wasn’t quite ready. I still am not ready. As long as I still have freedom of speech I will post this quilt. I knew about the Threads of Resistance project<\/a> and I would love to be a part of that, but I don’t do well with challenges. I wish I did because I’d love to be a part of that show.<\/p>\n

The stress started on my birthday, which was January 20, not just because it was inauguration day, but also because I was at an event where people were happy to see President Obama leave office. They didn’t like him because he was black. For them it was No-Bama Day. For me, even though I didn’t know it at the time, it was the beginning of a stressful, distressing time.<\/p>\n

I walked around waiting for my ATM card not to work, to be made subhuman, like in the Handmaid’s Tale<\/a>. I started really to fear that the better country we were making would be dismantled. You might think we don’t need the EPA or the ACA and that is your right. I do not want to create a Sh*tstorm and this is not a political blog. I feel we do need clean air and health care for everyone. My feelings coalesced when I saw Sarah Ann Smith’s quilt, Speak Up, Speak Out<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Sarah<\/a>
Sarah Ann Smith’s Quilt Speak Up, Speak Out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I saw her quilt, I realized that another in my political art quilt series had been brewing in my head without me really knowing. I thought “this is the quilt I wanted to make.” I said so to Sarah and she said to make my version.<\/p>\n

I thought about it for a long time, then I drew a picture in my journal. I thought that would be the end of it, but I couldn’t get the image out of my mind. I drew it again, a little more refined and more to scale.<\/p>\n

I drew it over an over, continually refining, adding detail. The whole process went so smoothly that I kept going into piecing and cutting and sewing and quilting.<\/p>\n

As I write this, the piece isn’t quite finished, but it will be soon (YAY! Another finish!). What happens to it after that, I don’t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I posted a Spark about having a secret. It was purely coincidental with the project I was working on. I needed to work on this project, but I did not want comments or to provoke the storm I know will come with this post. I wasn’t quite ready. I still am … Continue reading “I Have a Secret”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[434],"tags":[149,444],"class_list":["post-37378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-art-quilts","tag-down-the-drain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}