This is a lovely feature story in Richmond Magazine about Central Virginia Modern Quilt Guild’s exhibition at The Gallery at Main Street Station.
Read it here: Sew and Tell
As Natalie May says in this piece, I found my people with this guild. I love them, and I’m amazed at how we’ve grown since our first get together ten years ago.
Let’s keeping sewing,
Wanda
At Heidi Parkes’ scrap quilt workshop, hosted by the Central Virginia Modern Quilt Guild last year, I had a discussion with Lindsey Neal about the fuck quilts at QuiltCon. She believes people are using it to grab jurors’ attention and perhaps it’s time to move on. I had a fat quarter of fuck fabric I made from “what the fuck” block prints I created thanks to Ana Conceicao’s stamping workshop.
Stamping fuck over and over is quite the release. I promised Lindsey I would use the Fuck fabric in my scrap quilt. After I got home, I started adding black scraps. A U and C emerged so I added a K.
It’s interesting that I’ve censored myself with a large black rectangle where the F should be. I feel shame because “good girls” don’t swear. That’s why I used Baptist fans to quilt over the “bad words.” This quilt represents my struggle to be respectable and not give a fuck at the same time.
It measures 63” x 59”.
This is the third in my Unmentionables series. This quilt embraces tampons. I asked guild members to share their “code names” for their periods. Mine was Miss Murphy. The other names were shared by Candy Parker, Ann Prince, Maria Radecki, and Meagan Buch along with Donna Blalock’s encouragement for advocating for women’s health issues. I have tried to interject some humor into this discussion, but I recognize that periods can be unpredictable and painful.
72” x 55”
Wanda's Life Sampler 