Sisters In Stitches Joined By The Cloth Events

UPDATED SCHEDULE 2021

July 17           

Meeting at St. John's Episcopal Church and Zoom Guild Meeting online 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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August 21       

Meeting at St. John's Episcopal Church and Zoom Guild Meeting online 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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September 18

Meeting at St. John's Episcopal Church and Zoom Guild Meeting online1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

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October 16 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In-person Sisters in Stitches Joined By The Cloth group tour on Saturday, October 16, The MFA exhibit will feature two of Ms. Harriet Powers’ quilts, and a host of many outstanding unknown and known quilts/quilters from the early 18th-19th century to the present time.

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November 20

Meeting at St. John's Episcopal Church and Zoom Guild Meeting online1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

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December 18

Meeting at St. John's Episcopal Church and Zoom Guild Meeting online1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

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The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association

“And to Think that Lucy saw it on Memorial Street”
a Day in Old Deerfield with America’s

First African American Poet

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July 11, 2021 is “Lucy Terry Prince Day,” marking the bicentennial of the first known African American poet’s death.  Lucy Terry Prince’s (c.1730-1821) life from birth and captivity in Africa c.1730 to enslavement in Deerfield, MA, to her death as a free woman in Vermont in 1821, encompasses signal events in the lives of enslaved people.

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https://www.recorder.com/quilt-exhibit-opens-at-Memorial-Hall-35618836

Featured Fiber Artists in the Boston Globe Magazine

Link below:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/11/magazine/quilters-are-weaving-personal-histories-black-experience-were-people-with-lot-stories-tell/

Quilt Title: Wonky, Wonky Music

Fiber Artist: Quilter: Tina Guthmann

Quilt Title: 

Gye Nyame:  In God We Trust
aka “Where’s Your G Spot”

Fiber Artist: Juandamarie Gikandi 

Quilt Title:

 Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa

Fiber Artist: Christle Rawlins-Jackson

Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa was an influential Ashanti Queen and warrior at the beginning of the twentieth century who remains a powerful symbol today.

Quilt Title: Butterscotch

Fiber Artist: Tarsha N. Taylor

Quilt Title: Earthy Woman

Fiber Artist: Susi Ryan

Due to Covid19, we are required to wear face masks at our SISJBTC Guild meetings. 

Also, we still hold meetings via Zoom.