Revolution

I felt a need to make a little quilt to document what's going on in America right now.

 This is something I've had in my head  for a few weeks now. I finally got some time in my sewing room! Whoop! Whoop!

My test block- F

I posted this on my Facebook group and it wasn't really recognizable as the letter F.

I used Cheri Payne's letter pattern and paper pieced them. They finish at 3 1/2".

I got the letters made but had to mull around how I was going to set them. 

Other than the dark photo this was hard to read. 

Placing them all on red made it easier to see the message. 

 This is how I ended up setting them. I'm calling it "revolution" and will put a bit of a narrative on the back. 

I was inspired by this quilt by Jessie Telfair.(1913-1986)  I think her story is important. 

When Jessie Telfair invoked the power of a single word repeated over and over in this quilt, she knew the word would reverberate through the history of the United States, back to the “peculiar institution” of slavery and the freedom that she was still struggling to attain in the 1960s at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. The making of the quilt was incited by an incident she suffered in those years, when registering to vote was enough to cost this African American woman her job in a school kitchen. The bitterness of that experience still burned years later, and fellow quiltmakers urged her to express the pain through her art. Worked in the colors of the American flag, the quilt cries freedom. In a subtle metaphor, Telfair has set each repeated letter in its own block; all are visually related, but no two are alike.

My daughter says it is a really important time to be alive right now! We have a lot of hard things going on, but I agree with her!

Take care