This year, I made 17 granny squares for the fair’s large-scale crochet project in the Home Arts building. This amazing experience had me wondering about the crochet history of the fair (and Los Angeles).
The Amazing Quilts of Chawne Kimber
Lately I’ve been researching textiles as historical sources for women’s history. In this process, I came across the amazing quilts of mathematician Chawne Kimber. "Chawne Kimber is making some of the most powerful artworks today about race, language, women’s rights, and police brutality—all with a needle and thread," Maria Hlohowskyj (from womenarts.org). That sentence was... Continue Reading →