"Star" variation

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1978
Cotton and polyester
83 x 83 inches
Collection of
North Carolina Museum of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Leola Pettway put in some time at the Freedom Quilting Bee, and this "Star" is from those years. "I love to make a 'Star,'" she says simply. But appearances are deceiving in this quilt: what looks quite regular at first reveals numerous variations on closer inspection. The borders and corners are handled differently all around, as is the banding around the "Star's" points.