Sour Grapes Post Election 2012

Showing posts with label quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilt. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

I'm going to make a quilt reflecting this beautiful thought of MLK!!!


 I'm feeling the musics notes on fabric......

democracy....

to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

Friday, November 13, 2009


Monday, August 31, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Another good visualization of migration patterns


that my fore-parents may have travelled. I'm hopeful that this will be put to good use as I tell the African American Story of Americans who quilted....

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A Fine Weaver


Lucindy Jurdon, former slave from Georgia (21.2)

(Photograph possibly by Preston Klein and Jack Kytle, ca. 1938)
Lucindy Jurdon reported to her interviewers:



"My mammy was a fine weaver and she work for both white and colored [people]. This is her spinning wheel, and it can still be used. I use it sometimes now."