In a previous post I wrote about the quilt that I was making for this year Open Europian Quilt Competition - OEQC 2012 with the theme FLORA.
Finally the blocks are ready. I am still hesitating about constructing the top - should I use sashing and what would be the cross-point, or a white block between every 2 tulips bouquet?
I also revealed in my previous post that the name of the quilt is bouquets withought brides
and promised to explain why. I was inspired by a youtube video and a subject that troubles me a lot: 10-13 women are killed every year in the Netherlands alone in what is called - honnor killing. They are being killed by a family member, mostly father or brother in order to "protect the family name", that is the men of the family because a women is a possesion of her father, brothers, uncles and cousins and later her husband. If she talks with a classmate or have a relationship with a man her family didn't choose to her or want to divorce an abusive husband she puts her family to shame and to restore the honnor of the family she must die.
bouquets withought brides is dedicated to the honnor of these honnorable women who did nothing wrong. There is no honnor in killing.
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