My Mom on the Meditative Quality of Hand Quilting

by Danny Fisher

Over at her blog The Quilted Librarian, my mom considers the meditative quality of hand quilting. She incorporates a teaching of Norman Fischer’s that appeared in an issue of Turning Wheel: The Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and also points readers to a fascinating little booklet called Buddha’s Robe is Sewn: The Tradition of Sewing Practice in the Shunryū Suzuki-rōshi American Lineage. Check it out.

I’ve previously blogged about two of my mom’s Buddhist-themed quilts here and here.