Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek

A sculpture commissioned for the Haub Family Galleries at the Tacoma Art Museum

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Paula McArdle
Seattle, WA
Tags
Grandmothers, Homemade, Moving west

My grandmother crocheted this blanket for my sixteenth birthday. She told me it was for the “hope chest” that I should begin to fill in preparation for getting married. I never had a hope chest, but I did bring the blanket with me when I moved from Boston to Seattle back in 1982.