The Coxhoe Quilters who hail from Durham, U.K. have been commemorating people through The 70273 Project from the get-go. Their first quilt is #33 – that should tell you something. Many of the quilts made by the Coxhoe Quilters were displayed in Durham Cathedral in January 2018 as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Some of the […]
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Today, January 27, is Holocaust Remembrance Day – a day chosen because it marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. At Durham Cathedral, it is being observed with a display of quilts of The 70273 Project. You saw some of them yesterday. Thank you, Margaret Jackson, for the photos. A Holocaust Remembrance Day service […]
Quilts are being made to hang in Rochester Cathedral from January 19 to March 12, 2018, and in another part of the U.K., quilts are being made to hang in Durham Cathedral from January 25 to 29, 2018. The ladies of Coxhoe quilters have been stitching and educating local students for a year, and last week […]
Every year Europeans mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at the end of January. The Engineer, Tari Vickery, and I are honored to be in attendance and participate in January 2018. Quilts of The 70273 Project were on display in Durham Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral, and the Jersey Heritage Center and Museum in the Channel Islands. It’s […]
Meet The 70273 Project Quilt 241 that will soon hang in Durham Cathedral in observance of Holocaust Memorial Day. Though I can’t tell you the exact dimensions, I think you can tell that she’s a girl of sizable proportions. 395 people are commemorated in Quilt 241, and these are the people who made the blocks: […]
Week 50 found The Engineer and me on the road again, back down in GA tending to family business, but that didn’t keep us away from The 70273 Project. Have project, will travel, y’all. Here are a few highlights of week 50 . . . I developed a new, revised, streamlined quilt reporting system for those […]
Dear Jeanne, As you know, Coxhoe quilt group worked with schoolchildren on Friday 27th January, Holocaust Memorial day, as part of a series of workshops. Three sessions later in the morning and we had a huge pile of blocks made. I must admit I was a little apprehensive about how it would go, and wondered […]
Good news, y’all: quilt #33 is completed! A 60-block beauty, this quilt was made entirely by the Coxhoe Quilters in Durham, UK. Writes Margaret Jackson: Dear Jeanne: Quilt #33 was made by a group of ladies who meet twice a month in Coxhoe Village Hall. We at Coxhoe Quilters first heard about The 70273 Project when it […]
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