HUMOROUS QUILTS: Keeping Us In Stitches
Sunbonnet Soup by Bette Kelley
HUMOROUS QUILTS: Keeping Us In Stitches is currently on display at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts through December 27, 2014
http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/2014-2015-exhibitions.html
HUMOROUS QUILTS: Keeping Us In Stitches is currently on display at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts through December 27, 2014
http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/2014-2015-exhibitions.html
I noticed a familiar face in their show description---well a familiar hat. Bette Kelley's "Sunbonnet Soup" is from the Seamsters' Union's 1979 quilt.
The quilt, which I worked on, is now in the Kitty Cole Clark collection at the Museum at Michigan State University. MSU must have loaned it to the New England Quilt Museum.
See more details here: http://museum.msu.edu/glqc/collections_2001.158.01.html
The Humorous Quilt show features other satirical Sunbonnet quilts.
See more details here: http://museum.msu.edu/glqc/collections_2001.158.01.html
The Humorous Quilt show features other satirical Sunbonnet quilts.
Teddy McMahon Pruett The Salacious Secrets of Sam and Sue
Sue represents a well-mannered pillar of the community who just begs for needling. Read a 1979 a newspaper article about our quilt when it was denied display space at a regional fair. If our job as artists is to Épater la bourgeoisie (Shock the middle class) we did a fine job in 1979.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19790909&id=65UyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QOcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,1582747
Sue represents a well-mannered pillar of the community who just begs for needling. Read a 1979 a newspaper article about our quilt when it was denied display space at a regional fair. If our job as artists is to Épater la bourgeoisie (Shock the middle class) we did a fine job in 1979.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19790909&id=65UyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QOcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,1582747
Sue Breaks Bad by the City Sewers 2014
And we continue to do so today. Last spring the City Sewers displayed an altered Sunbonnet Sue quilt at our local guild show. Some people were gravely offended by Anarchist Sue, Tagger Sue, Meth-Making Sue, etc.
And we continue to do so today. Last spring the City Sewers displayed an altered Sunbonnet Sue quilt at our local guild show. Some people were gravely offended by Anarchist Sue, Tagger Sue, Meth-Making Sue, etc.
Hate-filled Sue See more photos at this post by Deb: http://debrowden.blogspot.com/2014/04/sue-breaks-bad.html
We have dropped the ball, however, in the metaphorical game. Urban Threads offers machine embroidery patterns for the Seven Deadly Sinbonnet Sues. Above: Sloth.
Envy
See more of their Sinbonnet Sue designs: http://www.urbanthreads.com/search.aspx?s=sunbonnet sue machine&df=Machine%20Embroidery
The perfect holiday gift for someone on your list.
Read about our motive for creating the 1979 Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue at this post: http://historicallymodernquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/sentimental-modernism-in-quilts.html
See more of their Sinbonnet Sue designs: http://www.urbanthreads.com/search.aspx?s=sunbonnet sue machine&df=Machine%20Embroidery
The perfect holiday gift for someone on your list.
Read about our motive for creating the 1979 Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue at this post: http://historicallymodernquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/sentimental-modernism-in-quilts.html
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