Beacon House Quilt
We Are One Family - This Place Is Ours
During the mid 1990s the children of the Beacon House Community Ministry made a quilt that was intended
for their new community center in Washington DC. The quilt was to be displayed in the community center so the children could
return as adults and see their artwork and photos of themselves as children.
Daisy writes, "The minister and founder of Beacon House had taken this quilt to the annual General
Assembly of the Unitarian Church to show it off. On the return flight on Southwest Airlines he left it in the
overhead compartment and realized this as soon as he was off the plane. They wouldn't let him back on board to
retrieve it. They told him to contact their lost and found. He did so, but they reported that no quilt was found.
We were both heartsick about it because the quilt meant so much to the children."
The squares of this quilt were hand painted by inner city children. Each square is about 6" by 8".
The border features small oval photos of the children printed on white cotton fabric. The quilt should have a label that
includes the line "Designed, pieced and quilted by Daisy Grubbs." The border background and the horizontal
sashing is black. The vertical sashing makes creates the seven candles of the Kwanza candelabra: three red, one black
and three green. The quilt is approximately 50" by 70".
Can you help get this quilt back to the children? If so, please contact Daisy at
[email protected].
Posted April 12, 2002.
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