Writing Prompt: The Quilt
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Between working today, I am working on a quilt that I have been working on for my dad for a while. I’m in the process now of slowly adding a running embroidery stitch along the perimeter of the Sawtooth Star blocks on the quilt.
This has me thinking about quilting and writing. Quilts can be items of great fascination. They can hold a long history in their sewn layers. They can be pieces of mystery.
Consider the discovery of an old quilt by your character. Would they know what it is, perhaps a family heirloom or maybe the quilt has a square that identifies what it is? What if the quilt had a tear in it and in the process of repairing it they found that the quilt hid a secret. What kind of secret? A lost flag from the early days of the country? Hidden gemstones or jewelry? A map of some kind sewn into the middle layers?
