#protest quilt

[carlinstitches]

Leopards Eating Faces, a banner quilt

[dipsticky]

By depicting random school supplies, she is both honoring those things that she relies on to teach and inform her students, while also understanding that these same supplies might be the very objects she uses in self-defense, futile as they may be. The list of school supplies is crowdsourced. Ginny took to Instagram to ask other teachers what they would use in the case of an active shooter entering their classroom. Sadly, she got plenty of answers. Her approach to collecting this data was very intentional. She spoke to a few of her colleagues at her own school about her process, but she did not ask them the same question she posed to her Instagram followers because she wanted to keep these spaces completely separate. She did not want to see supplies from her own school on this quilt.

I somehow missed that last year's Best In Show for the Modern Quilt Guild was a protest quilt about school shootings in the US. Highly recommend checking out the article about the work.

[gathow]

Pen + Paper patterns has made their foundation paper piecing letter block patterns free indefinitely. This is a good opportunity to make protest quilts: https://penandpaperpatterns.com/collections/pdf-patterns/products/pdf-foundation-paper-pieced-just-my-type-letter-block-pattern (The quilt pieces and image is by Pen + Paper patterns)