Month: January 2020
I won’t reveal the finished square just yet. I’ll share this when I see it again, in the midst of all the other squares crafted and created by…
I made this quilt patch using an old curtain and my mom’s leftover embroidery thread. The messenger bag was cut from a larger backpack that used to carry…
This is the third of our set of three – Earth, Sea and Sky. Every single tree is an amazing ecosystem living in synergy with the soil, the…
The main fabric in my femedtech quilt square is cut from an organic cotton bag from a store called Maiwa in Vancouver Canada. In Cantonese and Mandarin maiwa…
We, a team of 5 women at Portland State University in Portland, OR, spent some time brainstorming ways that we see care in praxis in open education and…
This (lady) Octopus is finding a way to care for herself so she can care for others. When Octopuses give birth, they stop doing everything – they don’t…
I am sending red plaid from a nightgown worn during graduate school (1980’s) where I was a student assistant staffing the Data Analysis Lab at Penn State. The…
Increasingly in Melbourne you are met with Womin Djeka a Kulin nation greeting, often translated as welcome – more precisely as: welcome – what is your purpose? Having…
Our contribution to the quilt is called ‘Hope’ by Leicester-based artist George Sfougaras, who very kindly made a screen print of his image onto fabric so it could…
One of the more productive responses that underrepresented people in tech and ed tech have taken to Manels, keynote slots at conferences, and social media bubbles is to…
I was so excited when the announcement for the #femedtechquilt project appeared. I started my quilting journey in March of 2013. I have always been inspired by my…
This isn’t at all what I’d planned, but moving into the new year, all I could think about was hope, and how much we needed hope. The swallow…
I challenged myself to design a no-sew block to encourage participation in the quilt by those with an aversion to sewing. The detailed story of its construction is…
