This quilt was made from three jelly roll sets of two blues prints and one blues metallic. The quilt is larger than lap size, with overhang on a twin-sized bed and a good size as a top layer or summer spread on a double/full sized bed.
The middle part of the quilt, border, and backing are from a sandy-colored sheet set. The binding is from the scraps of the
This quilt calls back to the crossing of the Red Sea in Exodus. Moses splits the sea, the children of Israel walk through it, and then the sea swallows back up to drown the Egyptian army. It's fitting enough as it is, looking like an open sea, but it has an even more fascinating resemblance to how part of the story is written in the Torah. Exodus 15:1-18 is called the Song of the Sea. The Israelites sing it as they praise God for what He did using the Red Sea. They are overjoyed to be out of Egypt with none of the Egyptians following them. The song was used in the Prince of Egypt movie and sung when the Hebrews cross the sea and afterwards after the Egyptian chariots are swallowed up. In the Torah scroll, the song is written like this:
It's meant to represent the Israelites walking through the sea, with the text on the left and right being the waters, and the text center-aligned being the Israelites themselves.
This is the only case in written Torah scrolls of such fancy formatting. It's a momentous occasion that inspires great works of art, including the fantastic Prince of Egypt movie. The quilt itself was also meant to be a gift for my sister who loves the Song of the Sea from the Prince of Egypt.
The Song of the Sea is meant to be a reminder to the faithfulness of God. The Israelites had finally be able to leave Egypt and had camped on the bank of the Red Sea. Then, the Egyptians made to follow them. God held off the Egyptians for a while, but the Israelites felt stuck between a rock and a hard place, perhaps between an irate army and a large sea. They asked, has God brought us out here just for the Egyptians to kill us? They had little faith in God, even after securing their freedom. God gave them a fantastical reminder of His faithfulness and goodness to them by splitting the Red Sea, opening to dry land, and then closing the sea back up over the Egyptians.
If you ever feel stuck in a situation, where your only choices are loss and loss, don't forget about God. He makes dry pathways through seas and swallows up entire armies. Your impossible is His day's work.