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...
DescriptionThe quilt was started in 1996 and finished In 2008. It took 12 years to finish. It is my first and only Baltimore Album hand applique. During that time, I pieced the blocks whenever I had time. I...
DescriptionThe main design was the guild logo Sankofa, an Adinkra symbol meaning learn from the past to prepare for the future. Additional blocks were from the Underground Railroad book. Authentic Kente cloth...
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 quilt was inspired by the notion of justice within the courts. The Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Gye Nyame which is the focal point of this quilt, means “except for God,” Gye Nyame is at the center...
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...
