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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Quilting Conversation

...and quilting. Quilting Conversation panelists, Atlanta, Georgia, September 22, 2018. From left: Katherine Jentleson, Marquetta Johnson, Michael Moon, Mary Margaret Pettway, and Erin Jane Nelson. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces....

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...

Failed Memory Exercise

...the questions, true Or false, fill-in-the-blanks south from the P.O.: Three grocers, Leona Patterson's Fabric Box, The shuttered bank, the poolhall din and smoke, And this would have been a...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...evenings. Women made frequent visits with relatives, sometimes for several days at a time, and they carried handwork in order to keep their hands occupied during these visits. In southern...

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Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

This morning when I went to play the scales the strings of the guitar were so cold they might have slept all night in the Holston's South Fork. And the...