Quilt contribution Categorized "Fabrics"

Beyond the Rainbow

Education (formal or not) can enlighten and set your mind free. This is what you see in my square where the rainbow colours represent people from different countries…

Openness is a state of mind

The square represents someone indoors or inside. I thought about the theme of openness and I have seen other squares of a quilt in progress. It seemed many…

Diversity and growth

My quilt square represents diversity. It is a leaf made out of fabrics from all parts of the world. I work for INASP, an international development organisation working…

Shweshwe Table Mountain of the Mother city

Shweshwe Table Mountain of the Mother city

I have made a square using South African shweshwe, a fabric which originated elsewhere in the 19th century but has been embraced by African culture and is now…

Love CC!

Everything in my square has come from somewhere else. Reused, recycled and repurposed. I did a boro and sashiko retreat last year, and I decided to repurpose the…

Threads That Connect us

In my post about my Open World femedtech quilt square I explained why I chose to make my square out of Harris Tweed, a protected fabric that is…

Patchwork reflecting OER Health

Brightening our futures

In this square I have portrayed aspects of our OER journey at the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Health Sciences. The bright colours reflect our motivation and…

Color photo of 7 folded piles of fabric on a brown carpet- 1 pink flannel, 1 blue ycra, 1 pink flower-printed, 1 red plaid, 1 yellow and blue plaid, 1 white floral, and 1 green with yellow dinosaurs

Plaid Fabric

The call for participation for the #femedtechquilt really struck a chord in me.  Thinking about caring, and sharing.  What did I have that I can share?  What could…

Stitching together Open in Africa

The squares in this piece of the #FemEdTech quilt are made by 11 people who are involved in open education (#opened) in the Centre for Innovation in Learning…

openness blossoms with care

This contribution comes from a collaboration between three very different women: different ages, different experiences, different interests and activities. But shared values. We all share social justice and…

femedtech quilt square

Big Heart

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…

Rainbow quilt squares arranged in grid. Counterclockwise from top left: Red square, yes = yes embroidered in blue; pink square embroidered with 2 green faces connected by arrows; tan square embroidered with multicolored vegetables; off white square embroidered with multicolored shapes pointing inwards towards a circle; purple square embroidered with green gender fluid icon; brown square embroidered with outline of human and balanced justice scales; light purple square embroidered in red with hands holding a heart symbol; dark blue square embroidered with an orange outline of an unlocked padlock with wifi symbol; turquoise square embroidered with orange house outline; green square embroidered with yellow and purple icon for accessibility; yellow square embroidered with brown anatomical heart; orange square embroidered with white creative commons icon. These square encircle a center panel of rainbow fabric on which is overlaid a crosstitched “OER” panel.

Get Rid of Boxes

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…

Red plaid nightgown with white piping down the front.

Plaid Memories

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…

Fuck Lists - embroidered on red fabric

Lists are nice.

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…

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