"One Patch," tied

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1970
Cotton
91 x 78 inches
Collection of
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Description

In this quilt, Irby used leftover scraps of dashiki cloth provided by her daughter, Mensie Lee Pettway, who worked at the Freedom Quilting Bee during its early years when it had a contract to manufacture dashikis.