Asante

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Quilt in mostly red and purple made for Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry by the African American Quilt Circle in 2003. It is comprised of several blocks both pieced and appliqued, with strips sewn in some places to create evenness in the block sizes. The fabrics are mostly red and purple tones in cotton, synthetic, and blended fabrics. The pieced blocks include a pinwheel, star variations, a sixteen-patch, four-patch variations, and strip block variations. At the top near the center is a block in a crazy quilt pieced style with hand embroidered and bead decorations. There is one hand-appliqued block of a stylized flower design in the second row center. In the third row is a machine-appliqued block of a black woman dancing with a three-dimensional streamer flying behind her upheld arms.

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