WEEK SIX

6A: SUMMARY

finding the pattern that works best (log cabin) and how it relates to my own personal safe and happy place of my grandparent’s log cabin.

Colorado Cabin (PC: Grace McLarty, Franny McLarty)

Dyeing with zoe, dinner with zoe and caleb, main focus is deciding on a quilt pattern and natural dyeing.

6B: RADICAL

Drawing on inspiration from the women of Gee’s Bend. Looking up histories of log cabin quilts and what they symbolize. Watched the Handmaid’s Tale, and how quilts used to be modes of communication.

Gee’s Bend Quilts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018 (PC: Grace McLarty)

log quilt inspiration from old book plus me playing around with patterns:

Log Cabin Experiments (PC: Grace McLarty)

A log cabin quilt block is supposed to have a red center, symbolizing the hearth, or a yellow center, symbolizing a window. It is usually surrounded by light and dark fabrics, to represent the sun and shadows within a home. None of these are rules. I am going to try to use red in the center of each block to symbolize the most important hearths in my past and present.