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A Stitch from the Past

October 25, 2016 / jeanne / 2 Comments

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About 15 years ago, I had this idea: I cut circles from fabric and stitched biographical plates (portraits) of my ancestors. Small projects, easy to tuck into my bag and work on wherever I happened to be. And what did I do after stitching them?

Nothing.

I’d planned to stitch them onto a tablecloth . . . but that never happened. I just tucked them into the scrap suitcase were they lingered (forgotten) until I went to grab bits I might use on The Storyteller’s Apron, #1: Sky Rider. Now the plates will become constellations – or maybe galaxies – as I stitch along with Jude Hill and the #sunmoonstars gang.

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This is the plate of my maternal granddaddy who was a sheriff in Fayette County, GA who liked to play checkers with his grandchildren and took it upon himself to teach each of us to drink coffee. He’d pull us into his lap, fill a saucer with milk, then add a splash of steaming hot Luzianne coffee – just enough to turn the milk a tan color. We’d blow on it and blow on it and blow on it, sending the steam across the room, sipping from the saucer only when there was no more steam to blow. Me? I took part in the ritual up till the part of sipping the milked-down coffee. That was as far as I could go, and to this day, I’ve never even tried coffee.

Gifts You Don’t Have to Dust

October 24, 2016 / jeanne / 26 Comments

I don’t care how many times you tell them, some people are convinced they’re not creative and, well, some folks are downright afraid to make blocks for The 70273 Project. Afraid they’ll do it wrong – Afraid of embarrassing themselves – Afraid to not know something.

Here’s how you can help them help us: if someone can’t (for whatever reason) donate blocks, maybe they’ll donate bucks. In addition to blocks and quilts, The 70273 Project has financial needs, so you see, there’s a way for everybody to help commemorate the 70273 people who died.

And here’s how I’ll help you help them help us . . . I’ve created several birthday cards ready for you to download, fold, sign, and mail. The cards ask people to donate blocks or bucks or both to The 70273 Project as a way to celebrate your birthday (and yes, there’s one for belated birthdays). In the coming weeks, I’ll be adding designs for other special occasions like Just Because, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, New Year’s, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fool’s, and well, you get the picture. Please let me know about appropriate holidays in the part of the world you call home, and I’ll design cards for those special occasions. I’ll even design one especially for you if you’d like. Just email me the particulars and give me 5-7 days to create it and email it back to you in ready-to-print .pdf form.

The cards print on one 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper, and if you live in a part of the world where there’s a different sized paper and will email me the measurements, I’ll create cards to print on your paper.

To use the cards:
1. Download the card you want to send.
2. Align the top edge of the page to the bottom edge, and crease to fold the paper in half.
3. Bring the two side edges together and crease to fold the paper in half again.
4. Sign the card.
5. Send to everybody you can think of.

These cards fit in 4.25″ x 5.75″ greeting card envelopes. If you order them by using this link or the link in the right sidebar, it doesn’t cost you any more than ordering directly from Amazon, and The 70273 Project earns a few pennies on the purchase.

Here are the cards. Simply click the image to download:

Birthday Card #1, front:

Birthday Card #1, inside:
This year I’ve added extra candles to my cake
and I’ll blow out each one with a wish
that you’ll help me celebrate
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
the 70273 Project!

Birthday Card #2, front:

Birthday card #2, inside:
What would I like to find in this box?
A note saying that you’ll help me celebrate
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
The 70273 Project!

Birthday Card #3, front:

Birthday card #3, inside:
Help me celebrate
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
The 70273 Project!

Birthday card #4, front:

Birthday card #4, inside:
This year, won’t you please
help me celebrate my birthday
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
The 70273 Project?

Birthday card #5, front:

Birthday card #5, inside:
This year, won’t you please
help me celebrate my birthday
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
The 70273 Project?

Birthday card #6, front:

Birthday card #6, inside:
This year please don’t give me
something I have to wash or dust.
Help me celebrate my birthday
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
The 70273 Project!

Birthday card #7, front:

Birthday card #7, inside:
and celebrate my birthday
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of
The 70273 Project!

Birthday card belated #1, front

Birthday card belated #1, inside:
You can help me celebrate my birthday
(or any other day, for that matter)
by making a block
or donating a buck
(or both)
in support of The 70273 Project.

Also inside each and every card . . .
Panel #2:
Jeanne Hewell-Chambers
is gathering quilt blocks
from around the world
(70,273 of them, to be exact)
to commemorate each of the
70,273 physically and mentally
disabled people who were
murdered by German Nazis in 1940-41.

Panel #3:
The base of the block is white to represent the medical records – the only information used by assessing physicians to make their evaluations. On the base are two red X’s to represent the death sentence because when two assessing physicians placed a red X on the medical record, the person’s fate was sealed and they were immediately murdered.

Because each block commemorates a perfectly imperfect person, blocks can be perfectly imperfect, too.

There are only other two guidelines:
~ finished blocks must be made in one of three sizes 3.5″ x 6.5″ (9 cm x 16.5 cm) or 6.5″ x 9.5″ (16.5 cm x 24.2 cm) or 9.5″ x 12.5″ (24.2 cm x 31.8 cm)
~ A completed and signed Provenance Form (release) must accompany the blocks

Panel #4:
For more information about The 70273 Project, visit www.The70273Project.org.

For more information on making blocks, fabric selection, the downloadable Provenance Form, and more, see The 70273 Project Directory in the right sidebar.

To make a donation, click on the “Donate” button in the right sidebar and follow the directions or mail a check made payable to The 70273 Project, Inc. and mail to POB 994 / Cashiers, NC 28717. The 70273 Project, Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization, so donations are tax deductible.

Thank you for helping me celebrate my birthday in such a meaningful way!

And dear Readers, Makers, Piecers, Quilters, and Donors . . . however you participate, thank you for helping commemorate the 70273 people who might otherwise go forgotten.

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Other places to find and support The 70273 Project:

Subscribe to the blog (where all information is shared).

Join the English-speaking Facebook group – our e-campfire – where you can talk to other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Join the French-speaking Facebook group – our other e-campfire – where you can chat with other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Like the Facebook page where you can check in for frequent updates.

Follow the pinterest board for visual information.

Post using #the70273project on Instagram. (Please tag me, too, @whollyjeanne, so I don’t miss anything.)

And if you haven’t yet made some blocks, perhaps you’d like to put some cloth in your hands and join us.

Or maybe you’d like to gather friends and family, colleagues or students, club or guild members, etc. together and make a group quilt.

Week 36 in Review (10/17-23, 2016)

October 23, 2016 / jeanne / 1 Comment

Another week spent with my daughter, Alison, as she recovers from a concussion, and this week found us having a MRI. Well, she had the MRI, but they asked me if I’d go in and talk to her because she’s claustrophobic. Turns out I couldn’t talk to her because she couldn’t hear me over the loud bing-bing-bings of the dreadfully tiny tunnel-like machine. And we didn’t find that out until after I’d removed all metal on my body – including my unmentionables and glasses. I could, however, hold her foot, and I squeezed it in sync with her breathing, figuring it would keep her brain occupied trying to figure out what on earth I was doing.

Now from this blog post, it’s gonna’ look like I haven’t hit a lick all week, but I promise you that much work is being done in the background of The 70273 Project – things that I’ll be able to tell you about in the next few weeks. I added new links to the Clarions page. It’s so exciting to see blog posts being written, people joining in with enthusiasm and commitment, word spreading. If you pen a post, won’t you please send me a link so I can add you to the Clarions page?

To date, I’ve heard from people in 97 different countries (which kinda’ explains why I’m so embarrassingly behind in replying to emails. Know that I’m trying to get and stay caught up, though.)

And now what you’ve all been waiting for. Thanks to the generous contributions of:
Marie-Christine Chausseraud (France)
Georganna Hawley (CA, USA)
Dawn Daymude (CA, USA)
Jill Hagemeier (IN, USA)
Paul Kolig (IN, USA)
Maria Conway (Argentina)
Anne Hill (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Sue Harris (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Gisele Therezien (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Kim Monins (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Lorraine Brogan (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Edward Bell (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Steph Hairon (Jersey, Channel Islands, UK)
Annie Hemmerlin (France)
Christine Guillemer (France)
Edith Paley (France)
Josee Jaerot (France
Marie-Jose Perin (France
Nadine Lavigne (France)
Sophie Raymond Frizzoneau (France)
Therese Lacombe (France)
Agnes Rozenknop (France)
Catherine Guignot Moraine (France)
Catherine Rozenknop (France)
Yolende Dray (France)
Laetitia Brugere (France)
Danielle Fayet (France)
Christianne Humbert (France)
Martine Priami (France)
Cecile Denis (France)
Claire Schwartz (France)
Dominique Deutsch (France)
Miajo Loth (France)
Marie-Claire Vagnati (France)
Chantal Legein-Kerkhofs (France)
Chloe Grice (France)
and
Nicole Dufour (France)
our current block count is 5085!
As Annie Hemmerlin wrote in an email to Chloe and me, “. . . although the mobilization is increasing, there is still MUCH MUCH to do.” Remember we are aiming to have all 70,273 blocks in my hands by the end of October 2017, so please keep stitching and tell everybody you can think of about the project and see if they won’t participate alongside you.

And with that, I wish you a good week and thank you all for your continued dedicating to commemorating these 70,273 vulnerable, voiceless people.

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Other places to gather around The 70273 Project water cooler:

Subscribe to the blog (where all information is shared).

Join the English-speaking Facebook group – our e-campfire – where you can talk to other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Join the French-speaking Facebook group – our other e-campfire – where you can chat with other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Like the Facebook page where you can check in for frequent updates.

Follow the pinterest board for visual information.

Post using #the70273project on Instagram. (Please tag me, too, @whollyjeanne, so I don’t miss anything.)

And if you haven’t yet made some blocks, perhaps you’d like to put some cloth in your hands and join us.

Or maybe you’d like to gather friends and family, colleagues or students, club or guild members, etc. together and make a group quilt.

Starting is Such Sweat ‘n Sorrow

October 20, 2016 / jeanne / 4 Comments

I think.

I gather.

I plan.

I align.

I start. Finally.

Why so much circling before starting to stitch along with Jude Hill’s SunMoonStars? I think it has to do with trust. After all these trips around the sun, my brain still don’t trust that my heart and hands or even itself, for that matter, will come up with a story, develop it, tell it. My brain – the same brain with authority issues which means it’s the same brain that doesn’t like to follow directions or use patterns – doesn’t believe in haptic intelligence or creativity.

I bought these 2 curtain panels at a thrift shop, and I spent hours trying to decide how to use them. Do I make one long storytelling cloth? Do I make one panel the back of the quilt? Do I make a long, skinny “book”? I finally decide to match the circles – because we all know that everything goes much more smoothly when the planets, suns, and moons are in alignment.

I long to be the woman who can travel the world with a backpack, has more space in her house than stuff, and just starts. I’m not there yet, but I’m working on it. And this cloth, this series? It’s gonna’ be FUN.

Week 35 in Review (October 10-16, 2016)

October 17, 2016 / jeanne / 2 Comments

ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE FRONT . . .
Things came to a rolling stop in week 35, as my computer gave me the dreaded “Your startup disk is FULL”. So as I tended to our daughter and her concussion, I researched storage options, learning that whatever I put in Dropbox places a mirror image on my computer – a key piece of information I did not know. I thought Dropbox was cloud storage, but it’s really more of a file organization system, and as some of y’all know, I save everything 70273, and it’s all those files placed in Dropbox that slowed my computer down then brought it to its knees.

So after much research and consideration that consumed 3 or 4 days, I purchased a 4TB portable external hard drive that I’m calling The 70273 Project Mother Lode Closet and began moving things out of Dropbox and storing them there. That external drive is set up to backup continuously through Backblaze, so there’s my redundancy. For purposes of convenience, I will leave some things in Dropbox, but the photos and files and other space-consuming items will go into the new red external backup drive. The rearranging continues, but I’m back on a productive track after feeling stalled out dealing with storage issues last week.

GROWING
I’ve heard from people in 95 different countries.

A NEW QUILT ARRIVED!
Quilt #11, Pieced and Quilted by Janet Hartje arrived in this week’s mail. It is gorgeous, and I’ll tell you – and show you – more about it real soon.

BLOCK COUNT
It is SO much fun opening the mail – seeing the decorated envelopes – reading the notes and letters – finding surprises – bawling. Y’all just amaze me, you always amaze me. Thanks to the generosity and creativity of these folks that you’ll see and hear more from in future blog posts . . .
Velia Antila (CA, USA)
Donna Bailey (CT, USA)
Sandie Ehrman (CA, USA)
Suzanne McCarthy (MI, USA)
Pam Arena (GA, USA)
Margaret Williams (GA, USA)
Caroline Rudisill (TX, USA)
Barbara Winfield (MD, USA)
Shane Dallman (OR, USA)
and
one Anonymous Maker (OR, USA)
I now have 4878 blocks in hand!

Remember: You still have time to collaborate on blocks with me and with your siblings, so stitch on.

Thank y’all for everything you’re doing to commemorate these 70273 people who might otherwise be forgotten.

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Other places to gather around The 70273 Project water cooler:

Subscribe to the blog (where all information is shared).

Join the English-speaking Facebook group – our e-campfire – where you can talk to other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Join the French-speaking Facebook group – our other e-campfire – where you can chat with other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Like the Facebook page where you can check in for frequent updates.

Follow the pinterest board for visual information.

Post using #the70273project on Instagram. (Please tag me, too, @whollyjeanne, so I don’t miss anything.)

And if you haven’t yet made some blocks, perhaps you’d like to put some cloth in your hands and join us.

Or maybe you’d like to gather friends and family, colleagues or students, club or guild members, etc. together and make a group quilt.

Meet Maker Corinne Micropoulos

October 13, 2016 / jeanne / 3 Comments

corinnemicropoulosblock1 Today I’d like to introduce you to Corinne Micropoulos, her beautiful blocks, and her beautiful words . . .

Voici mes deux premieres croix. (These are my first two crosses.)

J’ai brodé avec des perles pour montrer le contraste entre ces personnes riches dans leur tête et le tissu épais et rêche qui représente l’endroit triste où ces pauvres gens étaient enfermés avant d’être exécutés (le tissu me vient de ma grand-mère et date d’avant la dernière guerre, je le conservais précieusement en souvenir d’elle, je suis sûre que là où elle se trouve elle est contente de participer par mon intermédiaire)

I embroidered with pearls to show the contrast between these rich people in their head and the fabric thick and rough to represent the sad place where these poor people were locked up before being executed (the fabric I got from my grandmother before the last war. I was saving the preciously in remembrance of her. I’m sure there where she is she’s happy to participate through me).

Thank you, Corinne, for the beauty and meaning you add to The 70273 Project. I am deeply touched by your blocks and grateful for your participation. I’m sure your grandmother is proud of you and delighted to work through you..

There is such enthusiasm for and commitment to The 70273 Project in France and Belgium and the rest of Europe – y’all just wouldn’t believe. I am so deeply, hugely grateful for everything the good people are doing there, for the layers of meaning and creativity being added.

I’m learning French, you know, so I can express my gratitude next June when I travel to France for The 70273 Project Exhibit in Lacaze. In 4 weeks, I’m 4% fluent. (I missed several days of class and haven’t caught up yet.)

Going to The Dog

October 13, 2016 / jeanne / 2 Comments

Meet Phoebe, our Corgi, a Christmas gift from our children in 2002. Today is her birthday, and so you don’t have to do the math, I’ll tell you: she is 14 people years old today.

Her preferred mode of transportation is a golf cart. Until about 6 months ago when her hearing began to decline, you could say “golf cart” and out she’d scoot. Now it’s the loud, shrill beep-beep-beep of reverse that gets her attention.

Her wants are few, and her needs are simple: breakfast and supper with sprinkled treats in between and at bedtime. She likes a squeaker toy (which the good ones do for about 5 minutes before she’s demolished the voice box) and a walk every day around 4. Phoebe doesn’t demand more than her fair share of our paycheck and what we get in return is priceless.

Phoebe gets along with everybody going into fierce protection mode only if somebody messes with her people with the intent to do them harm.

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Not one to dictate how you should live in your own backyard, Phoebe doesn’t really care how big you dig holes or how many bones you bury there. She doesn’t care if you walk around the house in your underwear or put furniture and appliances on your front porch. She only asks that you don’t try to make her do things your way or tell her what she can and cannot do in her yard. Tend to your own backyard and afford Phoebe the same consideration, and you’ll get along swell.

It’s a given: some folks like dogs more than they like cats while some folks like cats more than they like dogs. Phoebe is respectful of the fact that everybody’s different with different preferences and perspectives which is why you’ll never read a post on her Facebook timeline ordering people to unfriend you if they think differently from you. Phoebe values individuality and personal relationships far more than that.

You know, without cluttering the environment with a single yard sign, without enduring a single robocall, without losing an entire forest to unsolicited junk mail, I think I’ve just convinced myself to vote for Phoebe as a write-in candidate this November.

P.S. That last photo? It’s her head shot from a local performance of “Annie.” She played the role not of Daddy Warlocks but of Sandy. We’re not afraid to do things a little differently in this neck of the woods.

Meet Maker Pam Yates

October 12, 2016 / jeanne / 0 Comments

“This project has opened my eyes to so many injustices in the world. Many of them are beyond my scope of influence, but the ones that are before me . . . I will make a positive difference where I am able.”

Thank you for being a part of The 70273 Project. Your constant presence is most welcomed and appreciated by so many.

Computer woes have slowed me to the speed of crawling through cold molasses, but after two days of cogitating, I think I’ve got it figured out and should be back up to full steam by Friday when all the needed parts get here. Of course the weekend will be spend moving old things, setting new things up, and figuring out a new way of being one with the computer. Good that I find such things fun. It’s rather like putting together a digital quilt: I have this much space (fabric) and this many blocks (external hard drives, etc.), and I want it to look like this (need to access this information, could put it there and this here, etc.) and eventually I have all the pieces put together to have me back up and running again.

Remember:
~ We’re aiming to have all 70,273 blocks made by October 2017.
~ There’s still time to collaborate with me . . .
~ and with your siblings.

Feel free to stop by The 70273 Project water cooler near you:
~ Subscribe to the blog (where all information is shared).
~ Join the English-speaking Facebook group – our e-campfire – where you can talk to other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.
~ Join the French-speaking Facebook group – our other e-campfire – where you can chat with other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.
~ Like the Facebook page where you can check in for frequent updates.
~ Follow the pinterest board for visual information.
~ Post using #the70273project on Instagram. (Please tag me, too, @whollyjeanne, so I don’t miss anything.)
~ And if you haven’t yet made some blocks, perhaps you’d like to put some cloth in your hands and join us.
~ Or maybe you’d like to gather friends and family, colleagues or students, club or guild members, etc. together and make a group quilt.

Week 34 in Review (10/3-10/9, 2016)

October 9, 2016 / jeanne / 4 Comments

It was a week of medical offices and health concerns as our daughter suffered a concussion after being hit in the head not once but twice as she performed on stage. We are watching her closely, and we thank you for your good, healing thoughts.

It was a week of storytelling, as The Engineer and I attended the annual storytelling festival in Jonesborough, TN where I did what so many of you do: stitched, answered questions from inquiring onlookers, and handed out cards to those who were interested.

It was a week of weather as Hurricane Matthew teased, taunted, and tormented the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Even though some members of The 70273 Project tribe are still without power as I pen this post, I are relieved and grateful that so far as I know now, nobody was injured.

It was a week of visits as I have now been contacted by people in 95 countries.

It was a week of receiving mail. Thanks to the generous compassionate creativity of:
Margaret Andrews (MO, USA)
Kelly Beman (NH, USA)
Jackie Batman (ON, Canada)
Monique Rans-Gregorie (Nivelles, Belgique)
Laurie Dunn (PA, USA)
Colton Dunn (Laurie Dunn’s 3 year old grandson)
Jerrod Dunn (Laurie Dunn’s 5 year old grandson)
Steven Dunn (Laurie Dunn’s 8 year old grandson)
Sophia Holdren
Jessie Holdren, Jr. (Laurie Dunn’s 21 month old grandson)
Marlesa Dunn
Debbie Burchell (ON, Canada)
Thomas W. B. Hough (ON, Canada)
Monica Denison (ON, Canada)
Ian Jeffrey (Debbie Burchell’s 4 year old grandson)
Ava Jeffrey (Debbie Burchell’s 5 year old granddaughter)
Chelsey Burchell (ON, Canada)
Christina Cromwell (ME, USA)
Margaret Williams (GA, USA)
Pam Patterson (TX, USA)
Kitty Sorgen (WA, USA)
and me,
437 more people were commemorated this week, bringing our block count total to 4816!

It was a week of surprises. Thank you, Laurie, Colton, Jerrod, Steven, Sophia, Jessie, and Martesa for the lovely decorated shell and the angel wing!

As we move forward into Week 35 (can you believe it?!), please remember:
~ There’s still time to collaborate on blocks with me. (postmark by 10/31/16)
~ And there’s still time to make blocks with your siblings (postmark by 11/30/16)
~ We are aiming to have all 70,273 blocks in my hands by the end of October 2017.
~ To help spread the word by sharing links to blog posts, sharing posts on Facebook, and encouraging others to find out more about The 70273 Project around one of these water coolers:

Subscribe to the blog (where all information is shared).

Join the English-speaking Facebook group – our e-campfire – where you can talk to other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Join the French-speaking Facebook group – our other e-campfire – where you can chat with other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Like the Facebook page where you can check in for frequent updates.

Follow the pinterest board for visual information.

Post using #the70273project on Instagram. (Please tag me, too, @whollyjeanne, so I don’t miss anything.)

If you haven’t yet made some blocks, perhaps you’d like to put some cloth in your hands and join us.

Or maybe you’d like to gather friends and family, colleagues or students, club or guild members, etc. together and make a group quilt.

Thank you all for your continued support of The 70273 Project and your efforts to commemorate the 70,273 who died, celebrate those who live, and educate all who will listen.

Now go have yourself a good week, why don’t you.

Marketing for Their Cause

October 6, 2016 / jeanne / 2 Comments

There were posters:

This one designed to show that “inferior traits”
are passed on to future generations more quickly and easily
than more “highly valued traits”.

and this one that declares that 60,000 Reich marks
is what this person suffering from hereditary defects
costs the community during his lifetime.
“Comrade, that is your money, too” it warns.

Then there’s this one
maintaining that the cost of feeding one person
with a hereditary disease for one day
is the same cost to feed an entire family of healthy Germans.

There were also films:

Opfer der Vergangenheit, 1937

And this, a quote from the documentary I was watching
when The Big Idea came to call.
(I can’t find the video outside of the documentary.)

“The German people are unaware
of the true extent of all this misery.
They are unaware of the depressing atmosphere
in these places in which thousands of
gibbering idiots
must be fed and nursed.
They are inferior to any animal.
Can we burden future generations with such an inheritance?”

. . . all designed with one purpose in mind:
sell the public on the idea of
murdering those who are not deemed perfect.

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This must not happen again.
Won’t you become part of
The 70273 Project and help us commemorate
those with disabilities who were murdered,
celebrate those with special needs who live among us today,
and educate all who will listen so we can make sure
this never, ever happens again?

Places to gather around The 70273 Project water cooler:

Subscribe to the blog (where all information is shared).

Join the English-speaking Facebook group – our e-campfire –
where you can talk to other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Join the French-speaking Facebook group – our other e-campfire –
where you can chat with other members of The 70273 Project Tribe.

Like the Facebook page where you can check in for frequent updates.

Follow the pinterest board for visual information.

Post using #the70273project on Instagram.
(Please tag me, too, @whollyjeanne, so I don’t miss anything.)

And if you haven’t yet made some blocks,
perhaps you’d like to put some cloth in your hands and join us.

Or maybe you’d like to gather friends and family,
colleagues or students,
club or guild members, etc. together and make a group quilt.