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Article: Women shape art in bits and pieces.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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Byline: Joy Wallace Dickinson
Feb. 18--'This is all finger sewing," Ella J. Dinkins tells a group of quilt and art fans on a recent morning in Eatonville, as she holds some of her handiwork on her lap.
She is 88, which we know only because the ages of the three women before us have been mentioned during the program -- "The Eatonville Quilters: Celebrating a Community Tradition" -- at the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts. She sews by hand because she loves it.
She has made quilts in which scraps of fabric were pieced together on a sewing machine, like the red, white and blue "Freedom" quilt she made during the 1960s, but she ...