It might be hard to understand why someone might wrestle with being called a quilter.
Especially, if you love quilting, respect quilting, see it as art, or a really high form and expression of creativity and artistry. I could see that for other people, but I couldn’t see it for myself.
I actually struggled with it for years, and didn’t want to be called or considered a quilter, I was a Printmaker! I was a fine artist! even though I was designing fabric. Designing quilts. Teaching quilting, etc.
I actually had this ugly notion that it made me less of a real artist.
To people in my life who didn’t understand it, saw it as blanket making, they thought it was cute and crafty and not serious.
This was such a struggle for me. But as I’ve unpacked it, it gets a little more obvious where it came from, and why it had to go.
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