The Quilting Path: A Guide to Spiritual Discovery Through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah

Embark on a multi-dimensional journey acquiring and honing the skills necessary to engage in quilt making as a spiritual practice. Through personal stories, spiritual concepts, awareness practices and hands-on quilting projects, this book gives its readers the tools they need to experience the divinity within the quilting process. Each chapter presents a divinely endowed universal attribute organized according to the mystical Jewish tradition of Kabbalah, relates it to a personal life practice, and then applies both the attribute and the practice to an original quilting project with numerous variations. These projects transform pieces of cloth into family heirlooms-each with its own history, memory and significance. Anyone from the novice to the needlework expert will be nourished and gratified by patchwork experiences that enhance personal spiritual growth as an integral part of the creative process. Each chapter includes original quilting projects with dozens of variations.