The Golden Flute

"The Golden Flute" is a story quilt: it tells a story not yet told. A riddle, perhaps...but sometimes life is a riddle. Stories can be entities that demand to be told. From where else come our dreams? They grip the mind of the teller and shake them up until the story comes out.

I began this quilt with little idea of how it would come about. I knew I wanted a curved border, that the colors purple and pink would figure prominently, along with lady bugs. In the quilt world where squares and triangles are called "churn dash" that could mean almost anything.

Where do lady bugs live? On leaves and flowers, in sun and shade with their friends the butterfly and dragonfly - and fairies if we are lucky.