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Multimedia Quilt Collage and Embroidery Piece by Esther. Learn more about her MRKH and Intersex Activism here.
Ann’s Voting Rights Quilt pays tribute to the iconic accent of her adopted home town.
A second quilt honoring Fannie Lou Hamer. This one was delivered to Black Votes Matter.
New Quilts for the 2024 Election Quilts and Banners for the 2020 Election
People sometimes ask about our process. We started the Black Girls’ Joy quilt by ordering a lot of the great...
With apologies to Virginia Woolf (and tapping into her imagery of the marginalization of women), the front of the banner...
Quilting doesn’t stop for a pandemic. Fannie and Kit started these quilts in person and finished them over the phone.
Catherine has been experimenting with Yakatas. You can download Yakata instructions here.
These quilts were made by Kit, Fannie and Catherine, after the election, to thank activists for their work and to...
I created this block for the The SJSA Remembrance Project Researching the case of George Robinson, killed by Jackson, Mississippi...
Since we weren’t traveling we shared some fun learning the Town Square block. Quilters gotta quilt!
In October of 2019, Acres of Ancestry traveled to Alberta, Alabama to interview the few living legacy members of the...
This quilt was inspired by a suggestion of Kit’s friend Catherine Bengtson, who loved the meme of Nancy Pelosi walking...
Oakland Women’s March 2020 - Congresswoman Barbara Lee meets quilt guru Fannie Etheridge - it doesn’t get any better than...
“This quilt is based on a stained glass window in my mother Maya Miller’s kitchen. I’m sorry I don’t know...
We saw this image of the Virgin of Guadalupe being arrested by ICE on the internet. Maria was a bit...
Kit Miller made this quilt for a demonstration against Trump’s policy of separating families and locking kids up in cages...
Kit made this quilt, based on a New Yorker cover by B. Blitt, representing children hiding from harm, family separation...
We’re so happy to have spent several days in Nevada with quilt guru Fannie Etheridge of Alabama, learning to make...
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who served the Nixon administration, is credited with this quote. The Cheese Doodle background was printed...
These quilts remind us of the important role immigrants play in our society and that we need to welcome them...
Our best FLOTUS deserves my best frame. Quote by Michelle Obama. Embroidery by Esther Leidolf.
Meet some of the artists and activists behind the Radical Threads Collective!