Quilting is a process of cutting fabric up into little tiny pieces and putting it back together again. It’s a bizarre activity.
First, you buy some perfectly good fabric. Often the fabric is beautiful; lots of design effort has gone into it and it’s manufactured from the highest quality cotton.
Next, you spread it out on your cutting mat and cut it all up.
Then, you try to reassemble the pieces into a work of art.
It’s a perfect example of destroying in the act of creating. Like when you decide to clean a closet and begin by unpacking it and littering a room with its contents. You begin by increasing entropy.
This is why I keep a small figurine at my sewing table: Kali, the goddess of destruction. She’s the dark face of the goddess; the reverse side of the birth-giver/creator.
