Quilts Coming in the Mail! It’s Like Christmas!

So how many small suffrage quilts did we get?  At first they trickled in slowly, giving us time to worry.  Then a rush of them were received right before the deadline and we ended up with 36 in the display.  A manageable number, featuring many styles and techniques.

The peach one above is one of my designs (I also did a purple one).  Hopefully you can read the text.

I did the stairs from a Log Cabin block design with the stairs text giving the order the states ratified the 19th Amendment (from June 1919 to March 1984).  Below the stairs is the text of the 19th Amendment (please note there were no qualifying conditions in our suffrage amendment, you didn’t have to be married or own property).  In the upper right corner I have the three women leaders of the suffrage movement and in the two bottom corners I have two men who aided the movement (because the amendment would never have been introduced much less passed without the help of male supporters).

The female figure holding the banner is from a modern (2018) suffrage poster by British pastiche artist Garry Walton.  The British gave women the vote (with conditions) before America did so they started celebrating the anniversary before we did.  One of their ideas to celebrate womens suffrage was to invite their artists to create modern suffrage posters.  Mr. Walton was kind enough to let me use the figure from one of his posters.

Here’s a photo of me taken next to one of my quilts at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, September 2020.