Our Lives Are Patchwork

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This small piece of crazy quilting i acquired this weekend at a auction.

When ever i obtain a piece, it leaves me to wonder about the life of the women who produced it.

Each small piece was carefully embroideried with colorful varied stitches.

and shows much care and love.

I feel blessed to be able to own it and feel some of the history and love.

"Our Lives are patchwork, and it depends on us a good deal how the bright and dark bits get put together so that the whole is neat, pretty, and useful when it is done... Every task, no matter how small or homely, that gets well and cheerfully done, is a fine thing; and the sooner we learn to use up the dark and bright bits {the pleasures and pains, the cares and duties} into a cheerful, useful life, the sooner wee become real comforters."

---Louisa M. Alcott, "Patty's Patchwork," Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag---

The opening page in Cindy Brick's ---- "Crazy Quilts"