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- Indianapolis 500 Quilt Made for Bobby Unser by Jeanetta Holder, 1981 - Jeanetta Holder combined her sewing talents with her love of auto racing in 1976 when she created an Indianapolis 500-themed quilt for that year's race winner, Johnny Rutherford. Holder's quilts, covered with embroidered reproductions of autographs she collected over the years, became an Indy tradition. She made this quilt for Bobby Unser in 1981 after his third and final Indy 500 victory.
- 1981
- Collections - Artifact
Indianapolis 500 Quilt Made for Bobby Unser by Jeanetta Holder, 1981
Jeanetta Holder combined her sewing talents with her love of auto racing in 1976 when she created an Indianapolis 500-themed quilt for that year's race winner, Johnny Rutherford. Holder's quilts, covered with embroidered reproductions of autographs she collected over the years, became an Indy tradition. She made this quilt for Bobby Unser in 1981 after his third and final Indy 500 victory.
- "Rosa Parks II" Quilt by Yvonne Wells, 2006 - Rosa Parks's December 1, 1955, refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus led to such successful public action that many consider her act to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. Yvonne Wells, a self-taught artist and retired schoolteacher, created this pictorial quilt without using patterns or templates.
- 2006
- Collections - Artifact
"Rosa Parks II" Quilt by Yvonne Wells, 2006
Rosa Parks's December 1, 1955, refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus led to such successful public action that many consider her act to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. Yvonne Wells, a self-taught artist and retired schoolteacher, created this pictorial quilt without using patterns or templates.