poet in love at quilt canada 2025

poet in love, old cotton quilt with velvet patches by Judy Martin

Renewal, the juried exhibition of Canadian members of Studio Art Quilts Association, was one of the special exhibits at the Canadian Quilters Guild conference that took place June 18 - 21 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

poet in love second side, silk and rayon patchwork and hand quilting by Judy Martin 2022

Judy Martin's repaired and distorted quilt, Poet in Love, is part of this exhibition.

The title was inspired by Sappho, the greek poetess who wrote about Eros and by Anne Carson, the Canadian poet who studied her and then wrote Eros, the Bittersweet.  

When a poet is in love, they are full of so many emotions, they are basically wrecked.