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...
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...
DescriptionThese pillows began as a whole cloth quilt endeavor, but the Matelassé fabric was too heavy or me to maneuver so I created two toss pillows.
DescriptionA challenge project - “Quilt with a Book”. The book was Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell. It was a good way to use some of my scrap fabrics. I used stitch-in- the ditch for the...
DescriptionIn my quilting guild (NHQG) we were asked to do a wall hanging of a woman that most inspired us. My mother inspired me the most. Growing up, my mother exposed us (my brother and sister and I) to so...
DescriptionIn my quilting guild (NHQG) we were asked to do a wall hanging of a woman that most inspired us. Of course I did my mother (Emmie D. Melvin) first. I decided I would do Maya Angelou . I had a book of...
DescriptionWhen my sister and I were younger my mother (Emmie D. Melvin) had given us T-shirts with the Maya Angelou poem Phenomenal Woman on it. I found mine that had been put away. I decided I would make a...
DescriptionA challenge project. We were to design a wall hanging that either depicts a form of oppression or reflects freedom from oppressive conditions. I simply used background fabric that had stop signs on...
