Carol Leigh Wehking
I really enjoyed doing my square for this year's quilt! The 2007 Conference will be here in Hamilton, Ontario, and our
out-trip is to sites of the Underground Rail Road. I've always been fascinated by the URR and the ingenious ways in which
messages and people were conveyed. I have enormous respect and admiration for the courage, strength, faith and fortitude
of those people who braved so many dangers and terrifying unknowns to flee from bondage and take their own lives into their
hands.
Quilts, of course, played a role in this drama - some quilts were actually maps, but often an ordinary quilt on a
clothseline or a porch roof was an "all clear" signal that a safe house was indeed safe to approach.
My square is appliquéd. The little patchwork quilt was assembled from some old (rather worn) strip quilting which was not squared, which I thought would look better than new fabrics. The not-squareness of it allowed me to make it look as though it were moving in the breeze. My fleeing woman looks back over her shoulder in case of pursuit.
Thanks for this opportunity to contribute to a communal work of art, and a support for StorySave. And thanks for all the work you will still be doing after all the squares arrive from across the country.