{"id":505,"date":"2013-02-07T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:04:49","slug":"every-quilt-tells-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/every-quilt-tells-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Quilt Tells A Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>\u201cQuilts Celebrate Rites of Passage.\u201d That\u2019s what guest lecturer, Julie Silber, pointed out in her Saturday evening presentation, \u201cKeeping Them in Stitches.\u201d Quilts tell stories of the women who made them and of the people those women lived with. They often represent values that are important to society: babies, marriages, friendships, social organizations, religions, and death.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/shhhh-have-i-got-some-road-secrets-for-you\/attachment\/julie-silber\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-414\" alt=\"Julie Silber\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julie-Silber.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Making and sharing handmade quilts for life events has been a familiar tradition for generations. It is a tradition that is understood by young and old alike. Just recently, a local elementary school was celebrating its\u2019 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary and part of that celebration included presenting a patchwork quilt depicting the schools\u2019 milestones.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/every-quilt-tells-a-story\/attachment\/ale\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-506\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-506\" alt=\"ALE\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALE-235x300.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, quilts intended to honor special events, fall a little short in design and execution.\u00a0 Julie pointed out, that just as with life, quilts\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0always perfect and some of those imperfections can lend themselves to some pretty humorous results. She spent well over an hour amusing her audience by sharing photos from quilts spanning 60 years (from the late 1800\u2019s to the 1940\u2019s) that depicted the shortcomings of their creators. Whether it was unusual color combinations, mismatched patterns, or silly messages embroidered in the quilt, Julie\u2019s examples reminded everyone that just because things don\u2019t go as planned, you can still have a rich experience. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The next time your quilt project\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0turn out exactly how you expected, don\u2019t get discouraged. It\u2019s story will still be appreciated \u2013 one way or another.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What story does your quilt tell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}