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The African Canvas Memory Quilt™ series is 25% complete! When complete, the series will consist of 100 quilts. Each one is unique, numbered and signed. African Sunrise is number 25 of the series. It is for sale at the Underground Railroad Quilt Code Museum along with other quilts that are part of the African Canvas [...]
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The above article appeared in the Fulton County Daily Report.
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Don’t practice to the point of failing to share your quilts. After all, you are the only one who knows what it is supposed to look like. If there is an imperfection, just say it was part of your creativity. Or, subscribe to the Amish view: “Only God is perfect!” I was inspired by the [...]
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By Sharne Algotsson and Denys Davis I love looking at pictures of beautiful homes and visiting model homes. I try to figure out what makes it home to the inhabitant. After all, a house is not a home until you walk in the door, exhale and say, “Aha! I’m home.” The Spirit of African Design [...]
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Flowers and Tea For Me I recently took my 13-year-old daughter to her first live jazz concert. Lizz Wright was the main event. My daughter, who has loved jazz all her life, stared in awe at the bass player. “He makes it look so easy,” she marveled as she undoubetedly reflected on her attempts to [...]
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I discovered a little book recently entitled Protecting Your Quilts. It contains useful information about insuring your quilts and caring for your quilts so that they will be preserved for future generations. The book also contains a nice glossary of quilt terms. There is nothing earth shattering in the book, but sometimes it’s helpful to [...]
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Members of the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild gathered October 2, 2005 to make quilts for a family victimized by Hurricane Katrina. In assembly line type fashion, the members made eight quilt tops in one afternoon. The quilts included African coin quilts, Tessallation Stars, Rail Fence, Orphan Blocks, Crazy Nine Patch, Square-in-a-Square, Scrappy Blocks and [...]
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The American Folklore Society will hold its annual convention in Atlanta October 19 – 23, 2005. The conference will be held at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel in downtown Atlanta. During the Saturday, October 22d session there will be concurrent panel discussions that explore African American quilts. One panel is entitled “Ethnographic Complexities in the Study [...]
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My trip to Savannah caused me to pull Civil War Women by Barbara Brackman off the shelf and read it. Chapter 2 is entitled “Remembering Susie King Taylor and Other Freedwomen.” Through diaries and other recorded history, the author conveys a sense of how quilting fit into a life of slavery. As mentioned in my [...]
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