Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. Founded in antebellum times, it was the site of cotton plantations, primarily the lands of Joseph Gee and his relative Mark Pettway, who bought the Gee estate in 1850. After the Civil War, the freed slaves took the name Pettway, became tenant farmers for the Pettway family, and founded an all-black community nearly isolated from the surrounding world.
The town’s women developed a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American (and African American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee’s Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present.
Rhona saw this innovative cuff-style bracelet that is inspired by the acclaimed quilts of the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. She fell in love with it..so we are all making one..Sherry is the first one to get one done, and she made two...pictured above..Will post others as they finish...I haven't even started...The Ol'Blogger..
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Did you have a pattern for this bracelet
Yes, we did..The Ol'Blogger
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