Sewing for Justice
Janet Waters, long-time former president of the African American Quilters of Baltimore (AAQB) and a member of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, where the group meets, cannot quilt anymore because of arthritis in her hands. Nevertheless, she considers being a quilter part of her identity. “Whenever I sit down and do quilting or any kind of sewing, I feel this sense of women from the past – from the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s — being with me in the room,” Walters says.
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