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Un-modern Made Modern Challenge Our goal: Make a modern quilt with un-modern fabrics. Sounds un-interesting? Take a quick look: T...

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A Quilt From Gees Bend

There is a current exhibition at the Met called "History Refused to Die." It is an exhibition of thirty paintings, sculptures, dr...

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The Quilts of Gee's Bend

It would be very hard not to mention these stunning quilts when compiling an exhibition of denim. While the quilters of Gee’s Bend in Southe...

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Gee's Bend

After my post yesterday I came across these quilts made by the women of Gee's Bend. I can't get them out of my head- the color and composit...

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Housetops by Deb Rowden 2010 Deb's wall quilt is one of my favorite quilts. Vintage quilt top---1950s Her inspiration was a f...

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Gee’s Bend Quilts: Objects of Cultural Identity in the American South

Get to know the generations of African-American women who create the world-famous Gee’s Bend Quilts.

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wovenutopia on Instagram: "Amelia Bennett (1914-2002) - Blocks and strips, 1965, cotton 84 x 79 in ⁣ ⁣ Bennet was a member of Gees Bend Collective until she passed away in 2002, shortly after the group began receiving international attention. Amelia Bennett in her own words, transcribed from an oral interview by organization Souls Grown Deep on how she began quilting:⁣ ⁣ “I had started to work in the fields when I was eight years old. Us started helping Mama at that time. There was seven of us, Gees Bend, Gees Bend Quilts, Beginning Quilting, Quilt Sewing Patterns, Quilt Art, Sustainable Textiles, Contemporary Quilts, Abstract Images, Queen Quilt

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wovenutopia on Instagram: "Amelia Bennett (1914-2002) - Blocks and strips, 1965, cotton 84 x 79 in ⁣ ⁣ Bennet was a member of Gees Bend Collective until she passed away in 2002, shortly after the group began receiving international attention. Amelia Bennett in her own words, transcribed from an oral interview by organization Souls Grown Deep on how she began quilting:⁣ ⁣ “I had started to work in the fields when I was eight years old. Us started helping Mama at that time. There was seven of…

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From my No Sneaky-Peeky class I partnered with Windham Fabrics a few years ago to "pattern" 8 of the Gee's Bend quilts (wi...

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Ida Lee, Quilt 4 - 33.725 x 36

What began as a passion project quickly evolved into a hands on paper quilting bee. Mother and daughter artists, Brenda Bogart and Stephanie Stephenson Walker, had always shared an interest in the story of Gee's Bend. The art of quiltmaking, taking what you have and turning it into something functional, provides much inspiration. However the true influence for Brenda and Stephanie was the strength of a community of women to create in a time of distress. Collage, they discovered, is not so…

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