Stunning quilt

Two years ago Stephanie and her mother and her students - then at Mt. Tabor Elementary School - tag-teamed to produce a beautiful quilt. The students and a few faculty and staff fabric painted the quilt squares, which we purchased, and then Stephanie sent them to her mother (at that point very recently retired), who sewed them together into a beautiful quilt. Stephanie's kids and even their little brothers and sisters and other new students who have seen the quilt draped over one of the sofas in her room have been bugging her ever since to help them make another one. This one is even more stupendous. Nancy herself cut the squares, so they fit better, the kids really outdid themselves, and Stephanie's mother did a great job sewing it together and found great, appropriate borders (featuring the school's red and black school colors). It arrived in the mail earlier this week, and Stephanie will take it to school Monday after spring break. This will be none too soon, as things will have been a little tense at school and also, for her students, at home (since many of their families are feeling the pinch of stepped up opposition to immigration - whether they're legal immigrant or not - and several students and their families have returned to Mexico recently - potentially, in the long run (if not other issues), jeopardizing the jobs of the four people including Stephanie who are in English as a New Language education at Stephanie's school, the school district's magnet school. In their quilt squares, students, faculty, and staff generally were to draw symbols of their home countries. Pictured above are squares from two of Stephanie's students, from Stephanie's colleague Lourdes, and from Stephanie, as well as two views of most or all of the quilt, still at home.