{"id":1549977,"date":"2024-03-26T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/?p=1549977"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:14:42","slug":"perfume-and-coffee-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/journal\/perfume-and-coffee-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfume & Coffee Beans: A Refreshing View on Everyday Quilt Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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At department store perfume counters, clerks will often put out tiny dishes of roasted coffee beans near the fancy glass bottles. These are not snacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The coffee beans are there to help a person \u201creset\u201d their olfactory system after they\u2019ve smelled too much bergamot and sandalwood and lily of the valley. After sniffing bottle after bottle of <\/span>eau de toilette<\/span><\/i>, a person can become \u201cnose blind\u201d \u2014\u00a0i.e., incapable of smelling much of anything due to olfactory fatigue. It\u2019s been said that the strong, singular smell of pure coffee provides a kind of \u201creset\u201d for your nose so you can go back to smelling perfumes. It\u2019s not clear this is actually true, but if you\u2019re a department store trying to move six cases of Clinique Happy, you can\u2019t take any chances. So out come the little dishes of beans!<\/span><\/p>

I\u2019d like to suggest that just as we can become nose blind, we can become word blind too. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Don\u2019t Lose \u201cSight\u201d of Two Important Words: Quilt and Story<\/b><\/h5>

Every day, our brains process a staggering amount of words. This is very tiring. And because it\u2019s so tiring, the brain finds ways to cut corners. For instance, when we encounter certain phrases or word pairings that we\u2019ve seen a million times, we\u2019ve learned to kind of cognitively skim over them because we won\u2019t be missing critical information. \u201cI know that one,\u201d the brain says and moves onto the next phrase, the next word, effectively on autopilot until it gets to something more exciting, like \u201cSchenectady\u201d or \u201crecently escaped convict.\u201d You\u2019re definitely not word blind to that one.<\/span><\/p>

Lately, I\u2019ve been thinking that if you hang out in the quilt world long enough, you\u2019re in danger of becoming word blind to the words \u201cquilt\u201d and \u201cstory\u201d when they\u2019re used in conjunction. And they\u2019re used in conjunction a <\/span>lot<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Don\u2019t get me wrong; phrases like \u201cevery quilt tells a story\u201d or \u201cquilt your story\u201d are beautiful. Quiltfolk\u2019s own stated mission to \u201ctell the stories behind the stitches\u201d is as good as a mission statement gets. Both \u201cquilt\u201d and \u201cstory\u201d are evocative, powerful, deeply meaningful words, but because quilt-and-story phrases appear <\/span>so often<\/span><\/i> in the quilt discourse, are we becoming word blind to them? If our brains skim over these phrases when we read them\u2014e.g., \u201cYeah, quilts tell stories, got it\u201d\u2014a world of meaning gets skimmed over too. <\/span><\/p>

Not on my watch! Consider this post a rhetorical dish of coffee beans.<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Incredible Impact of Story<\/b><\/h5>

It happens occasionally that I\u2019ll pop my head up from whatever I\u2019m working on and think, \u201cAm I really still talking about this?\u201d Then I remember that to speak and write about quilts is to speak and write about art and culture, history and politics, and time. Plus, there\u2019s color absolutely everywhere, which is very cool. In my line of work, I get to tell people about other people like them or not like them, the living and the dead, and the meaning we make with our hands. It\u2019s a good gig because basically, I get to tell stories.<\/span><\/p>

Ah, stories. We crave them as children. We relish them as adults, as evidenced by bookstores and movie theaters\u2014both of which exist for the sole purpose of telling stories. Technically speaking, a story is a narrative that conveys a series of events connected in some way. They can be true or fictional, spoken or written, and you know a good one when you hear\/read it. But that\u2019s a sterile definition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Stories are much more than that: Stories teach us how to be people. We tell and listen to others tell stories of love, terror, heartache, adventure, loss, and triumph then carry them with us all our lives because <\/span>they are the stories we remember.<\/span><\/i> Stories give our lives shape and meaning. For quilt people\u2014whether you make, study, or have history with any aspect of quilts\u2014it\u2019s deeply rewarding when you get the opportunity to tell it.<\/span> There\u2019s something even better than that, though: When a quilter writes their story down, it means other people, now and in the future, can be rewarded too\u2014because reading someone else\u2019s story gives permission for others to share their own!<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Quilt Journeys: A Writing Retreat With Quiltfolk<\/b><\/h5>

In Person, In Iowa, In June!\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

In June, in the idyllic little town of Winterset, Iowa, myself, Frances O\u2019Roark Dowell, and Lauren DeLuca, all of us professional writers and teachers of writing, will lead <\/span>Quilt Journeys<\/span><\/a>, Quiltfolk\u2019s first-ever, in-person writing retreat. Not only will you have the opportunity to write your own quilt story\u2014about yourself, about someone else, about a quilt, or all of the above\u2014but you will also be surrounded by stunning vintage quilts in the <\/span>Iowa Quilt Museum<\/span><\/a> (from famed quilt collector Mary Kerr) and the historic, largest publicly held quilt collection in the world on our all-inclusive day trip to the <\/span>International Quilt Museum<\/span><\/a> in Lincoln, Nebraska.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Before people arrive, we will set up the chairs: There are 32 of them. And I promise that those of you who claim one will leave Iowa with a new understanding of and relationship to the words \u201cquilt\u201d and \u201cstory.\u201d You\u2019ll see!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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About the Author<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mary Fons joined Quiltfolk in 2016 and is the Creative Director of the Quiltfolk Foundry Project.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to learn about Quilt Nerd, Mary\u2019s weekly livestream show about quilt history and culture.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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