flying geese charm quilts: breakout

  I wanted to do a charm quilt. That's a quilt where every piece is a different fabric. In the late 1900s charm quilts and button chains were a big fad. I kept making geese because it was so much fun. When I put it all together it was so huge it completely covered the bedroom floor. Then I divided it up into 2 quilts, both large enough to cover your queen size bed. I was off just a tiny bit on the geese shape, and this multiplied into a slow curve that fell apart on the bottom.
 At the same time my friend Nadia's teenage daughter ran off to live with her boyfriend in the big bad city. This seemed terrible at the time, knowing teenage angst and negative possibities. BUT their marriage lasted and is good.
So during that time I wrote this little poem, breakout....

dont blame me
the quilt that
declared itself free
emancipated minor
or a moebus strip
or something
this quilt wouldnt listen to its mother
refused the nice structure I planned for it_
grew into two quilts
and now it wont even
stay in its rows
maybe the 60's fabric took over
I dont know
what's a mother to do?

    s.crystal 1995