Maria’s close-to-being-finished Blessed Mother quilt is an act of love, not really an act of faith. Maria is deeply spiritual, but not conventionally religious, and t
his quilt was inspired by our friend Sue Silverstein, the wonderful and dedicated theology and art teacher at Bishop Maginn High School.
As it happens, a reader of the blog is buying the quilt and has asked Maria to give it to Sue, who worships the Blessed Mother and is a devout Catholic.
Sue has a statue of the Blessed Mother in her classroom and Sue often asks her to carry some of the heavy weight that falls on her.
This became intense labor of love for Maria, she has worked long and hard on this quilt and thought a lot about it.
Maria has been teaching sewing to Bishop Maginn students, she has only one more class to go, but I’ll be there every week, profiling some of the students and figuring out ways to help the refugees.
Zinnia will be coming along with me. It’s beautiful work, it will be finished in a week, and we will both bring it to Sue. No one deserves it more.
This is glorious.
That is so beautiful, Jon! My heart sank when you said it was sold because I just knew it needed to be Sue in her love-filled art room. I now feel so much better knowing that Maria will get paid for her work and Sue will get her hanging!
Oh my goodness, that is so beautiful! Maria is so talented.
Striking and beautiful.
I for one thank the blessed reader of Maria’s blog who is giving the beautiful Blessed Mother Quilt to Sue Silverstein. It proves once more that your blog, and Maria’s blog show all’s right with the world.
Many of us have felt this should go to Sue. How wonderful it is. For me this is the most creative thing Maria has ever done and she’s done many.