Music, Staff of Life

Music has always played a big part in my life.  My parents started me in piano lessons when I was five years old, and I've often told my friends that for all the money my Daddy spent on those lessons, I should have been a concert pianist, but I didn't make it; didn't even aspire to such a life.  However, I do play my piano every night for several minutes just before I go to bed.   I have also enjoyed playing either the piano or the organ from time to time in every church I've ever attended since I was a teen-ager.  Truly sacred music is very precious to me.

Sacred music certainly is not the only music I've enjoyed throughout my life.  My many moods are often affected by the type of music I'm listening to at any given time; it truly has a great effect on my life.  When I saw the panel below, I just had to have it; it expresses my appreciation of music exactly.  Actually it had four sections, but I decided to use just three in the wall hanging.   I will probably make a pillow with the fourth section someday.  It says, "If music be the food of love, play on," a quote from Shakespeare.

Can you believe I pieced and bordered it all in black and brown?  Very unusual for me!  Why would I do such a thing?  Well,  I know three men whom I love to hear sing, and I'm trying to decide whether to give it to one of them, or whether I'll keep it for myself.  I just thought the  black and brown would be better suited to the music theme, or better for a man than my usual pink and greens, (giggle), if I should decide to part with it.     My problem is that I simply do not have a place to hang it near my piano, so it is hanging in the sunroom now --- where something else is supposed to be!  I quilted the same squares in the black squares and triangles as in the white squares and triangles, except double and with black thread.  Consequently, it doesn't show up very well in the picture.  

Music,  Staff of Life

Now that's finished, I hope to get those two other Christmas pieces quilted next!  I've not made much progress today.

---"Love"