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The Women of Color Quilters Network (WCQN) was founded in 1986 by Carolyn L. Mazloomi. For many years in the early 1980s, Mazloomi had tried unsuccessfully to expand her circle of African American quilters. She eventually placed an advertisement in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine requesting correspondence with other quilters who shared this ...
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting is a magazine and television program focusing on the art and technique of piecing and quilting quilts. The show was hosted by Liz Porter (Katie Porter’s mother) and Marianne Fons. Both have retired and occasionally make guest appearances on the show.
The International Honor Quilt (also known as the International Quilting Bee) is a collective feminist art project initiated in 1980 by Judy Chicago as a companion piece to The Dinner Party. [1] [2] The piece is a collection of 539 two-foot-long quilted triangles that honor women from around the world. [3]
A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.
Jul. 9—JANESVILLE — Growing up in Janesville, Janie Donaldson Mullen was in awe of her fashion designer mother. As a child, she quickly learned to sew and was taught pattern making by her mom.
Life (magazine) Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400,000 (Dutch) press-images Commons: approximately 400,000 No No Yes Dutch (Default)+ English National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork
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The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members located throughout the Black Belt of Alabama. [1] Black women created the cooperative in 1966 to generate income for their families. In December 1965 the Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter was in Wilcox county Alabama, when a quilt on a clothesline outside a small home caught his eye.