Collaborative Quilts
"International Working Women's Day" Quilt
Fabric, washable glue, thread
Made collaboratively by volunteers and attendees at the International Working Women's Day event and protest held in Oakland, CA on 01/08/2025.
Anyone who wanted to participate was offered a 5"x5" square of fabric that they could decorate using a wide selection of fabric scraps. Collaborators at the event used glue and scissors to customize their designs. Then, that evening, Bec Prior assembled the squares into a grid so they could be pieced and quilted into a lasting artifact. Bec also used remaining scraps to create the text on the back using a raw-edge-applique technique.
This project created a tangible memory of community togetherness, political action, and mutual aid that took place at the event, in a medium historically associated with womanhood and domesticity on a day that celebrates women's often unacknowledged labor both in and outside of the home.
Completed Historic Feed Sac Quilt
1930's chicken feed sac fabric, modern quilting cotton, cotton batting, thread.
Bec sourced these sections of 1930's feed sac fabric squares from an antique shop in Monterey. She set out to complete the work this mysterious sewist had begun using the upcycled depression-era materials to create a queen-size bed quilt.
Attempting to stay as true as possible to the color scheme of the existing design, she added sashing and a thick border to the squares so that they could be pieced into a large enough top, then quilted and bound the entire piece by hand.
