Blanket Stories: Talking Stick, Works Progress, Steward

A site-specific installation commissioned by Curator Faith Brower and the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon

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Darla Mercer
Bend, OR
Tags
Grandmothers, Handmade

Grandma never wasted a thing! I’ve seen her wash off a partially used ice cube and put it back in the freezer for future use. Every scrap of fabric was used and re-used and when it could be used no more, it would find its final resting place somewhere in a patchwork quilt.