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...
DescriptionThis was the very first quilt I made. I hand dyed the batiks during a batik workshop conducted by Kokroko in Kumasi, Ghana in July 2010. My sister Tarsha-Nicole Taylor of Tewksbury, MA helped me...
DescriptionThis was a class I took on making Crazy Quilts. The first crazy quilt I’ve made. In the past I always wanted to try and make one, never got around to it. I’m glad I took the class. In my quilt...
