Archive for November, 2006
Quilt as Psychiatrist
Sieglinde Schoen Smith just won the International Quilt Association’s Best of Show award. This is the most prestigious award in quilting, but Smith, who has made three quilts in her life, did not make this quilt, a forest full of children, in hopes of winning any awards. She quilted to deal with her grief over the loss of her adult son, John Steven Taylor, in 2001. Smith says the quilt became her psychiatrist. This is an amazing story of creativity overcoming grief and of profound creativity saving a person from the depression of loss. An interesting note - Smith’s husband says, “She can remember color,” and she tells stories of buying fabric in New York that matched a blouse in the closet in California. Indeed a remarkable woman.
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