Monday Monday

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”  ~MLK Jr

Lots going on today. I'm thanking the Lord every day for my freedom. 

 

Revolution 2020

I thought the free motion waves would look a little like the flag fluttering. 

I’m really happy With it and the feelings behind it.

I admit, I struggled with the label to try and put what was going on but I think when history looks back we will know what was going on in 2020. I thought these quotes were appropriate. If you have a hard time reading them I typed them up and you can see them below.

Our church and another local church is hoping to get a dialogue going about race relations in our town. We will start with a group of women. I asked a lady at church if she would be willing to tell us some problems she has faced in our little town. She got a little weepy and shared a story that happened recently to her. When we see or hear  injustices, we must not be silent! 

I WILL NOT BE SILENT! 

The title of the little quilt came from this song:

Let's make a difference in the world this week!

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