DescriptionA challenge project - Favorite Dessert . I choose to do six different desserts fused into 11.5 inch squares. I used hand and machine embroidery and sashings to connect the squares, I also used some...
DescriptionI love doing jigsaw puzzles so when I ran across this puzzle quilt I had to do it. The quilt is formed by starting with the H quilt block which is rotated -- the little squares a long the design's...
DescriptionWe were to recreate the original quilt (Gee's Bend). I chose Loretta Pettway born 1942, Medallion ca. 1960, knit and cotton sacking material (87 x 70). In my quilt I used cotton fabricsized 40 x 30.
DescriptionIn the 1980’s my mother Edwinia Marie Middleton (nee Carey), aunt Virginia Davis (nee Carey), and grandmother aka “Nana”, Isabelle J. Grunderway (nee Marsh) travelled to Arkansas. Nana was born...
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the book Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of American Universities by Craig Steven Wyler. As a young woman growing up in Medford, Massachusetts, I...
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the following articles: Bassett, Thomas J. Slim pickings: fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum 41.1 (2010): 44-55. Day, Elizabeth. The desperate plight of Africa’s...
DescriptionThe Ohio Star pattern is a “Quilts of Valor” design. It has interlocking star blocks (Blue, White) that are repeated throughout the quilt. The block consists of three units: Unit 1 – a four...
DescriptionThis was a challenge project. A wall hanging that either depicts a form of oppression or reflects freedom from oppressive conditions. My pieces were copied and blown up, and fused to different...
DescriptionI love doing jigsaw puzzles, you know. I had to make this quilt, it’s the second puzzle quilt I’ve made. First I looked at a color wheel, then I chose my colors. There are many different quilt...
