Shakespeare Canon

This quilt includes references to all 37 Shakespeare plays plus some sonnets.   I made two of the same quilt, one for Stephen Whelan, the theater teacher at Valencia High School, who brought Shakespeare into our lives,  and one lives with me or Emily.   Its a cathedral window pattern, and includes a little book of all the Shakespeare lines referenced. 

I created this by finding a line from each play that I though I could represent with an image.  For  example, in the lower left corner of the quilt, is an image of strawberries.  That is for the strawberries on Desdemona's handkerchief, in Othello.   There are pies for Tamora's evil deeds in Titus Andronicus,  and colorful tents from Loves Labor's Lost.   There is a pirate from Pericles, and "all the pretty little babes" from Macbeth.
 

 

Finding the images took a very long time, and my quilting friends were quite generous to let me look through their novelty print stash looking for a horse, or a glove.  Finally my friend Barbara machine embroidered a few images for me. Thanks Barb!! 

This I-Spy quilt was truly a labor of love. 

Peace