The Quilt: Beauty, Utility, History, Identity
January 23, 2018
January 23, 2018
SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, Jan. 23 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news:
Growing up in Gee's Bend, Alabama, Mary Lee Bendolph sewed her first quilt when she was 12 years old. She used scraps of worn-out jeans, faded flour sacks, even a scrap she found in the road. Coming from a long family line -- and community -- of quilters, she asked her mother to show her how to stitch. Three years later she had her own child and she joined others in her community, sewing quilts . . .
Growing up in Gee's Bend, Alabama, Mary Lee Bendolph sewed her first quilt when she was 12 years old. She used scraps of worn-out jeans, faded flour sacks, even a scrap she found in the road. Coming from a long family line -- and community -- of quilters, she asked her mother to show her how to stitch. Three years later she had her own child and she joined others in her community, sewing quilts . . .