100th Anniversary Celebration

The Covid 19 Closet Cleanup Collaboration Project 

Call for sample swatches from Members’ stash, please donate your scraps!

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Here is a progress image of the Covid 19 Closet Cleanup Quilt.  The blocks are ‘auditioning for their best position within the 60” x 60” panel.  As you can see, the group project is growing it’s own personality, thanks to donations from many of the members, but, we need more blocks.  I have been rearranging the scraps and blocks as part of the process.  SO, if you have you been looking at your stash during the Lockdown and wondering what to do with all those lovely swatches and samples that are not big enough to make anything from, the 100th Celebration Committee has a large project that would love your special scraps. 

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We would like to submit the work to the Fuller Craft Museum exhibition or show it at the Charles River Industrial Museum. It is a way to give all members an opportunity to be represented.  There is no fee for members to join this project, all are welcome to weave, stitch and share in this block party.

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The theme for the project represents how we feel about home and security in this pandemic.  The presentation format will be as an ‘ART Quilt’ to meet the maximum dimension of 60” X 60”.  The quilt or quilts made will be assembled in Attic Windows pattern as our collective, but featuring individual views of the world, based on personal expressions about “home and security”.  (Depending on YOU, we can submit up to 3 pieces to the Fuller Craft Museum)

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Members may participate in two ways: 

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1. Swatches or fabrics that have been woven by the WGB member may be submitted in any size or technique.  These may be scraps like header waste, or sampling pieces, or other pieces that may be cut and sewn into a quilt block.  Send pieces of woven fabrics to Laurie.    

2. You may make your own square to measure  9” X 9” (including seam allowance).   Members can do different things to represent home and security. You may use a traditional quilt block pattern such as Log Cabin or a House Block or other personal expression.  You may embellish with decorative stitches or other surface techniques

Please clean your closet and find swatches! Mail them during Sept to Nov 2020 to : 

Laurie Steger 

2 Cranberry Lane

South Dartmouth, MA 02748  

Cell 508-272-9004

Email:

Samples we have received!  Click on an image to see greater detail.

UPDATE:

Our members are beginning to clean up their closets and create squares or send swatches to be used in the Covid Closet Cleanup Collaboration.  Thank you to Beth Guertin for swatches from the archives of our Heritage weavers, Eleanor Elkin for swatches, Lois Hardy and Karin Borden for quilt squares with the home and security theme.  I look forward to future submissions!