Gipsy Quilt, patchwork quilt by Naomi Wakan

Gipsy Quilt



	Gipsy Quilt (detail) (72 x 84 in) NFS
	I read twenty John Le Carré spy stories while I made this quilt. The contrast of the greyness of the spy world was balanced by the oranges and pinks of this embroidered quilt. I attach a poem to most quilts. Here is the poem for Gipsy: I was seven or maybe eight when I went with my father to see the drifting gipsies. My memories are a jumble of clothes-pins and tinkered kettles, stolen apples in our pockets and a strange excitement that I didn't yet recognize. Something still lingers of that day; clear as a Fall morning snatched from right and wrong; and that's the feel of my small hand in his as we walked together, each seeking, in our own way, an imagined freedom, through the laden orchards to their campsite.

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