Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Over at Amy's Creative Side, they are having a Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival.  If you enter a quilt you may have a chance to when a prize!  Cool Stuff ABOUND!

So the Mrs said I should enter my Rune Quilt.  This is my favorite quilt so far.  When I saw the viking fabric by Timeless Treasures, I knew I had to have it. Since I like to go by "Victhor the Viking" I thought it was perfect.

At first I was just going to do boats and put the map in the middle but then boom - GREAT ODIN'S RAVENS - I had the idea of doing runes instead.  I designed them in EQ 7 and Boom!  I have my favorite wall hanging!

Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats

Finished quilt measures : 42″x 42″

Quilted by : ME; Victhor the Viking!!!

Best Category : Wall Hanging, Art Quilt (I guess)

Wish me luck!!!

Rune Quilt [Quilt]

Wounded I hung on a wind-swept gallows
For nine long nights,
Pierced by a spear, pledged to Odin,
Offered, myself to myself
The wisest know not from whence spring
The roots of that ancient rood.





They gave me no bread,
They gave me no mead,
I looked down;
With a loud cry
I took up runes;
From that tree I fell.








Nine lays of power
I learned from the famous Bolthor, Bestla' s father:
He poured me a draught of precious mead,
Mixed with magic Odrerir.





Waxed and throve well;
Word from word gave words to me,
Deed from deed gave deeds to me.






Runes you will find, and readable staves,
Very strong staves,
Very stout staves,
Staves that Bolthor stained,
Made by mighty powers,
Graven by the prophetic God.





For the Gods by Odin,
By Dvalin, too, for the Dwarves,
By Asvid for the hateful Giants,
And some I carved myself:
Thund, before man was made, scratched them,
Who rose first, fell thereafter.



[Excerpt from Havamal, part of the Poetic Edda. Translation by W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor.]