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Patchwork Quilting
Patchwork quilting is many things to many people, including you.
Whether novice beginner to professional… those of us that share a passion for patchwork and quilting have a desire to create beautiful quilted art. Whether functional quilts that warm our beds, or abstract pieces of art that adorn the walls of our homes, we all bring our lives, our experiences, techniques and passion to this craft of patchwork quilting.
While I have grown very comfortable with my online name of MaggieB, which I have had almost as long as I have been quilting, most of you, if you do know me in the real world know me as Marge Burkell.
In the 30+ years that I have been involved in patchwork quilting I have come full circle. I started out all those years ago wanting to make a quilt for the new baby on the way… that baby, my daughter Allison, will turn 30 years old this Saturday! Just last year I went full circle, back to “basics” as I started a fun and wonderful quilt for my new baby granddaughter, Alexis!
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Patchwork Quilting; Goddess of Democracy Quilt
Hello! I am so glad to see you again!
Like I told you before, I am going to jump all over in this patchwork quilting blog, and until I know what YOU are looking for especially! I have lots of subject matter accumulated over my 30+ years! My thought is as we start a dialog we will naturally progress in the direction you want. In the meantime I push my red hat to the back of my head, stretch out my fingers, and follow my own path…
Last night we talked a little bit about political quilts… have YOU ever made one? What was it like and what prompted you to do that?
My one real political quilt was of the “Goddess of Democracy”, the statue of liberty looking statue that was temporarily erected in Tiananmen Square in the 1989 uprising. It is a very large quilt and she was airbrushed onto the surface of the quilt so that she appeared to fade… since she didn’t survive. She was bound in representative barbed wire that was done with embellishment threads around her torso.
I think she meant so much to me and I made the quilt because Read the rest of this entry »
