This is a blog about quilts and quilting by liberal artist Dawn Hanson.
(And people said that my liberal arts degree would never amount to anything!)






Monday, April 5, 2010

Headlines of Hope


This quilt is more than a year old, but I wanted to share it. I made this to commemorate the historic election of Barack Obama as President.

I had asked friends and family around the country to send me the front pages of their local papers for this project. I didn't know at the time that the Newseum would have them available online. There are now more than 700 PDFs of front pages available for download at www.newseum.org.

I was not completely happy with the finished quilt, because of the glossy surface of the articles. I used tshirt transfers for the image. I have since learned that I should have used photo transfer paper instead. Oh well, live and learn.

The quilt was presented as a gift to my friend, Merle Gordon who had worked on the campaign with me.

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