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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Cathy Williams
La Pine, OR
Tags
Grandmothers, Handmade

(This is a “stand-in” for my bed quilt). My grandmother, Jennie Kilgo, made my sister and I each a bed quilt for our bunkbeds that we shared. My quilt had the little girl with brown hair and brown eyes and my sister’s quilt had a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. We loved having matching quilts yet personalized for us. My quilt has held up well, considering my grandmother made it in 1968.