aMAZING

This blog post is being delayed. You will see it after July 13th. I am writing it on June 6th. That is because the items shown here are going with me to Germany as gifts and I don’t want the recipients to see them till I gift them. These pillows are for two young ladies that have graduated from high school and both are very much into theater and drama.



I have a tendency to make Sybil (from the movie with Sally Fields) pillows. That would be a pillow that has two opposite sides and yet have a theme or a message to portray.

Both pillows have the Drama masks on them, these are appliquéd wool onto cotton.
With the first phrase from the Shakespeare quote created through an printable iron on transfer.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.”





The opposite side has a hand embroidered celtic knot that is actually a maze. The material the mazes were worked on are actually linen napkins from the Captain’s mess from the US Navy decommissioned carrier USS Chicago. I have had these napkins since 1979. I knew I would find a use for them.







The mazes are then appliquéd onto wonderful printed cotton with puzzle or maze print. The trim around the edge was built up with two trims, the black is gimp and the red is very small red rick-rack woven into the gimp.



Both sides of the pillows should give the young ladies a thought provoking moment. Of how life is a maze. . .and it is a play. . .and they will play many parts in their lives.

So profound. . . don’t you think.