I've finally reached my destination in my Light at the End of the Tunnel journey that I've described previously in the posts, Looking for Light, and Getting Started.
Having made 18 fictional characters into
5x5" quilt blocks it was time to come up with a plan for my Light at the End of the
Tunnel challenge quilt. The blocks would need
to be assembled, and arranging them in a box didn’t count, not even if I put
them in alphabetical order.
A wall hanging quilt? With over a hundred such quilts under my
belt, the walls here are getting pretty full, and the padded cell décor is
getting just the tiniest bit tiresome. I’m
living in a fabric gulag. Also, a picture of each character wasn’t enough to
convey why these imaginary people, dogs, angels, ducks, frogs, and gas stoves
had not only mattered to me, but had guided me through many a ‘tunnel’ with
their own brand of moralist fervor.
I
needed to find a way to help the powerful metaphor of the “tunnel” tell my
stories. Making the character blocks
into a book became an obvious choice. Each
character would need an accompanying page of text with either a quote by or
about that character, or what the character represented, or perhaps my thoughts
on that character. It was a monumental
task - take eighteen things that are not
real, and succinctly come up with their impact on my own personal reality.
What follows are photos of each of the eighteen character
blocks, accompanied by their explanatory text pages. Some of the characters’ stories have been
told in previous blog posts (Fever Foster, Nancy Drew, Beaky, Superman). For the rest, their brief story - as told
here - is no less meaningful. You can click on the photos to enlarge them for easy reading.
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| Book Cover/Julie |
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Touslehead
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The Galloping Gas Stove
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| Beaky the Greedy Duck |
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| Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer |
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| Fairy Tales |
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| Santa Claus |
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| Charlie Brown |
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| Snoopy |
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| Fever Foster |
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| Nancy Drew |
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| Superman |
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| Kermit the Frog |
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| The Humanoids |
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| Star Trek |
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| Herbies |
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| The Snowman |
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| The Denton Bear |
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| Frederick Frog |
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| The Door/Quilt Label |
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| The Open Door |
