Celebrating Freedom Fearlessly is one of my latest additions to my growing Juneteenth Quilt collection. I tend to enjoy collections. To date, I have a red and white quilt collection and a Christmas quilt collection.
I made a special trip to the fabric store to look for “Juneteenth fabric.” Juneteenth colors are bright, big and bold so I needed a big quilt block to showcase the fabrics. I chose a pattern featuring flying geese by Villa Rosa designs as my inspiration. The flying geese block often symbolizes freedom.
After making the flying gees blocks with a blacker than black background, I added my signature words to the quilt, some flowers and star buttons.
I chose not to add borders because I did not want the quilt to be too big to easily display. The quilt measure 54 X 66 inches. I think the kente cloth binding brings together all the elements in the quilt nicely. Although this is a simple quilt, I think it is striking in its boldness.
The back of the quilt is a yellow and green African fabric. There is a hanging sleeve on the back for easy display and a label that documents the quilt.
Instead of signing on the front in ink as I normally do, I attached a printed name label and a charm that reads “Live Free”.
This quilt is one-of-a-kind and will make its public debut June 15th at the City of South Fulton Juneteenth exhibit at the Southwest Arts Center. Stay tuned for future posts about the exhibit.
