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Community Quilting Project Wrap-Up

 

Every Sunday afternoon during the run of The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, Museum visitors created their own 12” × 12” squares that became a part of the Chrysler Museum of Art’s Community Quilts. Guests engaged in quiltmaking with the help of members of area quilting guilds by fashioning a panel holding personal or local significance out of their own or Museum-provided materials.

The squares were assembled into 79 incubator covers at a community-wide quilting bee held at the Museum on Wednesday, December 29. The resulting quilts will travel to local libraries and cultural organizations for display in 2005, finally to be donated to the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk. The quilts traveled to various libraries for display during February in celebration of Black History Month.

The Chrysler Museum of Art would like to thank the following sponsors for donating materials to the Sunday Afternoon Quilting Bees & the Community Quilting Bee:

A Different Touch

Fabric Hut

Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Needlecraft, Inc.

Quilter’s Dream Batting

The Education Department would especially like to thank the following quilting groups for volunteering their time to facilitate the Bees:

Tidewater Quilters Guild

Norfolk Parks & Recreation quilting program

54 – 40 African-American Quilters Guild

 

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