On September 10th, Bib & Tucker Sew-Op will facilitate a sewing session as part of year 8 of The March Quilts project. Sew-Op facilitators will be joined by Michelle Reynolds, textile artist and habitat gardener. This year's theme for The March Quilts is A(MEND), a call to participants to consider the changes they would like to see take place within their communities. Just as mended cloth becomes stronger through the repair, A(MEND) hopes to illustrate the ways in which these changes could repair and heal on a local, regional, and national scale. Participants will engage in discussion and will then have the opportunity to hand-sew a quilt block, which will be sewn together with other blocks made in Alabama as part of this year's project. The resulting quilt will be unveiled in 2023.

Please join us at Ruffner Mountain on Saturday, 9/10/2022 from 10 AM to 1 PM. No sewing experience is necessary; all materials provided; free to participate. If you'd like to start planning your quilt block in advance, please read the following words from Michelle:

"Nurturing a sense of place — how do we amend? Exploitative processes of land and people can be replaced with remedial treatment and care — a place of toils to a place of leisure; a place that caused bodily peril to one that nurtures health; from corporate owned to caretaker and steward run; industrial chaos to wildlife refuge — a mountain harvested of its resources now absorbs the sun and nutrients to grow and serve community." - Michelle Reynolds, Habitat Gardener