After completing the above I was drawn to make the following three pieces.

Translated the title means ‘I don’t speak Welsh’ which was/is a comment on my situation as a Welsh born person living in Wales who does not speak the language.

I am of an age when I was not compelled to learn Welsh in school as it was seen as a dying language. By the time I had graduated the view had changed. I couldn’t get a job teaching in my home town of Cardiff because I wasn’t a Welsh speaker.

I could go on about the politics of identity and language, but all I will say is that for a long time, despite being born in Wales, it seemed unlikely that I had any Welsh blood in me. An Ancestry DNA test has relieved that there is some in there after all.

There was something about it that struck me, and I spent the rest of the day putting this together. It has a mixture of painted, eco dyed and commercially dyed fabric that I had purchased for kit backings.I don’t know if I will ever do anything else with it, but it does give me pleasure everytime I look at it.

*Cariad -used as a term of endearment, meaning love, darking, sweetheart.

Is there a traditional style of quilt that you are drawn to?

Have you been compelled to make one in your own style?

Let me know in the comments.