Mrs. Carline Haager Krankel, "Crazy Quilt", 1910, Silk, velvet, satin, and cotton.
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Gorgeous. I was just thinking and talking with someone about the quilts of Gees Bend the other day.
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I did a very long thread of quilts a few years ago. Mind-boggling.
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Oh, I'd love to see it. It's such a fascinating and underappreciated art form, don't you think? Thanks for sharing these. They are exquisite. I particularly love this first one.
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My mother used to do it. And my mother in law, too. Has it gone out of fashion? I think my mother still has thirty billion snippets of fabric in our attic just waiting to be stitched together.
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My mother does Palestinian cross-stitch like this:
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This is my reading nook. My mother made a couple of the cusions. The rest are by Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon. Let's say I have an obsession . . . I mean fondness for textile.

