Come Stitch Mini Quilts at Etsy Labs

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Story by julieincharge

Published on Mar 24, 2011 in Events

Photo by Haptic Lab  

When I look at Emily Fischer’s quilts, my mind is drawn to the miles of stitches that make up her Soft-Maps, a project she started in 2002 as an academic exploration of “tactile wayfinding” when her mother began to lose her eyesight. Emily is the Brooklyn-based artist behind Haptic Lab, whose studio is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Etsy Labs in DUMBO. She’ll be joining us at Craft Night, Monday, March 28 to make quilted bracelets (pictured below) and impart some of her quilting wisdom.

Prior to the start of Craft Night, Amy Milne, from the Alliance for American Quilts, will be hosting an interview with Emily, live on Etsy’s Livestream page. The interview is part of the Quilters’ Save Our Stories project (QSOS), whose mission is to “create, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory, for scholarship and exhibition. This grassroots project continually captures the voices and stories of quiltmakers and posts the transcribed interviews here.” This interview, like all QSOS interviews, will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Join us to see history in the making!

 

Where:  55 Washington Street, Suite 712  (7th floor) Brooklyn, New York, 11201
When: Monday, March 28. Drop in between 4-8 p.m.
RSVP here.
Webcast: Please join us for a live Quilters’ Save Our Stories interview with Amy from the Alliance for American Quilts and Emily Fischer. Check out the feed right on the Etsy Community page at 3 p.m. ET on Monday, March 28.

Upcoming Events at the Etsy Labs:
4/04: Craft Night with Raeburn Ink
4/11: Sew Wallets with Kim Grassie
4/17: Craft With RePlayGround
4/21: Church of Craft meeting
4/25: Open Craft Night
5/02: Paper Crafting with Esther K. Smith

 

 

A soft-map quilt made by Haptic Lab.

A photo from last week’s Craft Night.

Bonus! Abrams Books will be giving away a few quilting books at Craft Night on Monday.

Looking for further quilting inspiration? 

Make a Quilt Label | More Quilting How-To’s | Quilts on Etsy

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