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"I'm Quilting and I Can't Get Up:"

Quilting, Addiction, & Therapy


It has been said of some quilts: “This one either put her into the loony bin, or kept her out!”

Julie discusses the light -- and more serious side of “Quilts as Therapy.” What is so compelling about quilts, how they can figure into addiction and compulsion, and how they function as healers?

Includes slides and “live” examples of quilts: narrative quilts, quilts of “wretched excess,” and mourning quilts.

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