We had a quilting day today and I finished the quilt for the wedding this weekend. I was going to post another picture of it but I realized that there isn’t much difference that you can see on the new picture. I also started a fall wall hanging based on a quilt I saw on Simply Quilts. I’m not sure I’m liking it so far but I’ll keep going to see how it turns out.
One of the people I sew with is very Christian. I’m not saying that’s bad necessarily but she’s one of the “no Harry Potter” type Christians. She was discussing a quilt kit she bought last year that was a fall design. I guess it had pins that you put in the center of the finished blocks. There were witch pins in her kit so she took them back and exchanged them for pumpkins because she “didn’t want to have any witches”. She stated that as if it was self-evident. I just sort of smiled to myself and wondered how she would react if she knew that she was spending lots of time with a evil Pagan. If she couldn’t have witch pins in her house I wonder how she’d feel about having real one hanging out in her house?
[…] We are heading out to an Easter dinner at our friends’ house. I had to warn the husband that the are hard core fundamentalist Christians. He was disappointed because he wanted to share what he was learning about paganism. He asked if they knew about me. I said no. This is the friend that returned the fall quilt pattern because it had witch buttons and she couldn’t have witches in her house. I advocated a policy of keeping his mouth shut for this afternoon. […]
Ya know, we hear so much about being open & “out of the broom closet” about our religion (turn the steriotypes on their heads, sort of encouragements), but on the other hand, it’s soooooo much more fun sometimes to just be subversive!!!! 😉
I’m sorry, I’m sitting here chuckling over how dismayed this woman would be if she only knew.
The sad thing is that, since she can’t get past stereotypes enough to use a “witch pin” she would probably immidiately forget any nice things she felt and knew about you once she learned “the truth”.
Wishing you well
Blessings
mama kelly