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[stardustandash]

I finally got my book quilt back from the quilter and put the binding on it!!! I finished the top almost a year ago and now it’s ready for many hours of reading underneath it!

[happyheidi]

[ghostshipglamour]

James Fitzjames’s Erebus cabin book nook!

[eman-cosplay]

IS THIS HICCUP MOMENT ??????? YESSSS I ENDED HIS COSPLAY FIRST LOOK FOR YOU GUYS

[vintagehomecollection]

The Englishwoman’s Bedroom, 1985

[shiftythrifting]

at a library book sale, which is thrifting adjacent

[littlealienproducts]

Handmade Quilted Book Sleeve, Book Cover by FlowerGirlHandmade

[emmbrr]

the summer nights ahead of you ✷࿐

[ernestsewell]

Bookshelf quilt is done. It's a good scrap buster, but really good to use with a layer cake. Lots of Felicity, Kaffe, and more in there. The tchotchkes are applique.

The top row right int he center are my Ina Garten cookbooks, same color values as the books themselves. The taller white book with gold, red and gray is America's Test Kitchen.

I followed Missouri Star's method for it. But the tchotchkes are my own idea. One person saw a lava lamp, the other saw a buttplug. So, I ain't sayin' shit about what is actually next to the mosaic hurricane lamp.

[bad-comic-art]

Crazy Quilt left completely uncolored, that's like his one thing!

Batman: The Brave & The Bold #5 (2023)

[scoutingthetrooper]

the little ghost who was a quilt

[darlingdespairstims]

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CG! Old man Logan

Rarely see CG stuff for him but he's so grandpa coded🙁

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[happyheidi]

Samantha Lamb

[freepalestinebastard]

Now that I have your attention

And while we’re at it, will you please donate to this gofundme of a man trying to get family out of palestine👇

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

GEE’S BEND QUILTS

Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In 2002, folk art collector, historian, and curator William Arnett organized an exhibition entitled "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and later travelled to a dozen other locations across the country, including our own Milwaukee Art Museum (September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004). This exhibition brought fame to the quilts, and Arnett's foundation Souls Grown Deep Foundation continues to collect and organize exhibitions for Gee’s Bend Quilts.

The images shown here are from Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, with essays by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingston, an introduction by Alvia Wardlaw, and a foreword by Peter Marzio. The book was published in 2002 by Tinwood Books, Atlanta, and published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It includes 350 color illustrations and 30 black-and-white illustrations. The dust jacket notes observe:

The women of Gee’s Bend - a small, remote, black community in Alabama - have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. . . . [The] quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. Few other places can boast the extent of Gee’s Bends’s artistic achievement, the result of geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women of the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages.

Our copy is a gift from our friend and benefactor Suzy Ettinger.

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[diogenesprintco]

A simple periwinkle outline miniprint inspired by an illustration in Culpeper's Colour Herbal.