RSS FeedThe Pseudopod: Plan B: Gee's Bend
So I had some plans tonight to go out but I dithered and they fell through - mostly my own sketchiness. It's getting bloody chilly out there anyway, and to be honest, I could use a night in. I fumbled around on Illustrator a bit and talked design with a friend, and worked on some of my own doodles. Then I went and looked up the quilts of Gee's Bend . Martha (our painting instructor) brought two books about these amazing quilts on Monday. I combed the catalogue and copied these images. Since I'm linking back to them I figure it'd be ok. I hope it's ok...! Anyway these are my favourites. Missouri's daughter Arlonzia describes the quilt: "It was when Daddy died. I was about seventeen, eighteen. He stayed sick about eight months and passed on. Mama say, 'I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love.' She take his old pants legs and shirt-tails, take all the clothes he had, just enough to make that quilt, and I helped her tore them up. Bottom of the pants is narrow, top is wide, and she had me to cutting the top part out and to shape them up in even strips." A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth The Sacred Art of Stealing, by Christopher Brookmeyer Howard's End, by E.M. Forster The Death of Ivan Illyich and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy Pigs Have Wings, by P. G. Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse A Special Providence, by Richard Yates Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien