Each Sunday in 2020 and 2021 I’ll be featuring one block from my Lodestars quilt pattern on my blog and on Instagram. This quilt has 104 foundation paper pieced blocks, each named after an inspirational woman from history.
Feel free to follow along here or on Instagram (@CrispyKristin), or better yet, sew along! Use the hashtags #Lodestarsquilt and #Lodestarsblock2. I’d love to see your blocks!
You can see all the blocks I’ve blogged about so far on the Lodestars Blocks page.
Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010). Dorothy was an African-American administrator, educator, and civil rights and women’s rights activist.
I thought for some time about how to best showcase the women I chose for this quilt on my blog. I came to the conclusion that it does not do justice to any of them to simply highlight their achievements in a blog post.
Instead, I’ll highly encourage you to make yourself a cup of tea, sit down, and take the time to read all about this amazing woman and her life on her Wikipedia page.
See you next Sunday with another block and another fascinating woman to learn more about!
I am on the executive of the Vancouver MQG. We are wondering if we would be able to use this pattern guild wide for a variation of a block of the month/round Robin activity. Because we are a Canadian guild, we would like to commemorate important Canadian women. What do you think? How might this work from your perspective.