The DC Modern Quilt Guild’s Social Justice Committee has completed its first project for the Social Justice Sewing Academy. We were asked to embroider 10 student blocks with a pretty quick turn around time. The results and participants are below.
Melinda Newton
Diana Owen
Dara Tokarz
Virginia Hodge
Michelle Lipson
Carol Woodside
Melinda Newton
Katie Gillies
Dolores Goodson
Lorraine Robidoux
Dolores Goodson
Aarti Ravi
We had five new people participating in SJSA embroidery and two of them were brand new to any kind of embroidery. Thank you all for finishing up some gorgeous blocks and supporting students in making art that they are passionate about with fabric.
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The guild’s Social Justice Committee’s next adventure for SJSA is to work on some Remembrance Blocks for people in the DMV who died by violence. We currently have 10 names to remember through these blocks and as soon as we have volunteers to make those blocks, we will get 10 more names, etc.
Sign up to participate in this worthy sewing effort here. We will be forming small groups to bounce ideas off of, there will be remembrance sewing days scheduled as interest develops, and there will be an online slideshow with photos of previous blocks to use as inspiration.
We look forward to seeing what the guild can make as a group effort.
Post by Melinda Newton.