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Summer sewing session

Seasonal Variation of Polyphenols and Pigments in Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba L.) Leaves [x]

baby quilt finished! and given to the nearly-parents today. frog prince has gone hard into quilting (the layout was all him & I'm obsessed with the color gradient). can't wait for the next one. boy reba, we hope you love this quilt from day one!

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Some batts I blended today!

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington DC (USA) in 1996. Photo source: AIDS Memorial Quilt social media.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt was started in 1987 in the USA to show all the lives that were lost to AIDS representing them humanely and not just as a statistic. It was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. The idea spread to other countries, and it was also done here in Catalonia starting in 1993.

An event with the local AIDS Memorial Quilt in Barcelona (Catalonia) in the 1990s.

Other parts of the quilt. Photos from Catalonia History Museum.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is present in over 40 countries, where about 100,000 tapestries have been made to commemorate loved ones who died due to this illness. It is the largest piece of community folk art in the world.

The Quilt has the objective of keeping alive the memory of the people who died of AIDS, but it also has an educational purpose, showing the diversity of people who were affected by it. AIDS was an extremely stigmatised illness because of its association to gay men, drug users, and prostitutes (even though it affected -and still affects- other people, too), that led to some religious leaders and conservative politicians to state that it was divine punishment and that nothing should be done to help the ill people. People with AIDS, their friends and family, and the queer community as a whole had to fight just to be treated like other ill people would.

Nowadays, it is known that the most important tool to not get or spread HIV is to be protected during sex and not share needles. If a person catches HIV, it can be treated with medication that slows down the virus from developing into AIDS so much that it extends the life expectancy to a standard level, so a person can have a normal life while being HIV-positive. For this, it's important to be tested to find it early. For this reason, the people most affected by AIDS in the present are people from countries with little medical resources, with the highest death rates in Africa.

In 2017, the Catalan AIDS Memorial Quilt was donated to the Catalonia History Museum. On World AIDS Day (December 1st) part of it is lent to the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Hall to hang it from the balconies, and it's also exhibited in other occasions.

itgetsrad

i finished piecing together the rows of my first solo quilt today. there are obvious problems i need to figure out how to fix & i want to do a border around it but yeah... frustrated but ultimately proud of myself

#love it #quilting #quilters of tumblr

vampirejuno

Having a much older, much more experienced person tell you you're doing well in your shared hobby is better than crack, especially when the hobby tends to be 80% retired ppl. Like, hell yeah I'm gonna get a good grade in birdwatching and I'm not even 50. Child prodigy moment

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Spotted a bird today that turned out to be a yellow-bellied sapsucker (uncommon here this time of year apparently) and received several "well spotted!"s and "good find!"s. You wish you were me

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Autumn is Wistful by Chawne Kimber (cauchycomplete on Instagram)

"Chawne is always doing something interesting. This quilt technique was inspired by the work of Alabama Chanin. The poem is inspired by her friend Autumn Kent. Hand reverse appliqued and hand quilted."

Source: https://kristinshieldsart.com/blog/2017/3/16/quiltcon-2017-applique-and-handwork

birdwarde

I present to you, the second bird in our Bird Bags lineup, The Pigeon!

Preorders will be available this Saturday for National Pigeon Day!

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lorriewhittington

Black Sketchbook Series VII

Another piece inspired by Korean Bojagi and referenced from 'Bojagi' by Sara Cook. I really enjoy this process. Drawn freehand, I plot the shapes and colours as I go.