Pieces of Fabric

I recently attended a Quilt Show at the Texas State Capital. As I rode the Capital elevator down two floors to the underground Capital Extension I thought about the few quilts I have owned. What is it about quilts that makes people love them so much? Maybe it's the extraordinary use of color or the patterns that come together to form a picture. My fascination with quilts comes from the fabric, where and what the fabric came from. Quilts are often made of fabric that used to be something else, an old shirt, old bedspread or pieces of an old garment that are still good enough to be part of something new.
Once you have been to a quilt exhibit you never look at quilts in quite the same way again. It becomes easy to see how quilt making is a lot more than constructing a bed cover. If it were only about bed covers any fool could sew scraps together and be done with it!
Today quilts are very collectible and have become very expensive. The next time you walk past a bed topped with a quilt, look closely at the pieces of fabric and appreciate it's art and not just the bed cover you see.