To A Friends House

To A Friends House

Quilts, Comunity Quilts, Encoded, Folk Art

The article follows the Gourmet Quilters, A quilters group of 15 women based in Orange County, California. The groups meet for four-hour quilting sessions, including a potluck luncheon, giving them their name. The article features interviews from the women, describing the community that they have found from quilting together. Working together on a quilt, they all face each other, sharing their “triumphs and their problems”, creating an environment of caring and collaboration. The reinforcement of identity, creation of community and the relationships between these women are argued to be represented within the physical quilts that they make, as they mark transition points for both themselves and their loved ones, these connections and relationships encoded within the physical quilt itself.

Elenore Wiesel

Elaine Hedges Papers

John Hay Library

1983

Elaine Hedges

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