African American Quiltin’

I’m often thrilled and enjoy peeping in on a wonderful quilter:   Atlanta Quilt Festival Founder —  O.V. Brantley who said “Our quilts are just a little bit different.”

 Believe it or not… my Big Mama chose NOT to PASS FOR WHITE.   As did her (7) older brothers n sisters.  We have family pics of the (7) younger siblings with their mother Cindy Anderson Smith who was enslaved in Louisiana 

Sharing great similarities as the quilters of Mississippi Geese Bend!!

Pictured Below

Avid-audacious 82 yr old:  QUILTIN’ skills are just from the past 2 years (Oklahoma City)

  QUILTIN’ is almost as old as the history of America. Black slave women were needed for spinning, weaving, sewing and quilting on plantation.

“I do view African-American quilting as a genre, just like 

traditional quilts, 

art quilts, 

modern quilts,”