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PHYLLIS STREET
“My very first remembrance of quilting is being just a tiny little thing and playing in the pile of scraps my mother always had. Mother quilted to keep us warm. I loved that pile. I just watched her at it; that’s how I learned. Use it up, we called that pile.”
Phyllis produces one-of-a-kind quilts that resemble paintings. She utilizes techniques such as reverse appliqué, echo quilting, cross hatch bordering, wire-edged ribboning, tendril embroidering and ruching. She often starts the process by jotting her thoughts in notebooks and works on compositions by assembling collected swatches and scraps.
The widow of a coal miner, Phyllis Street lives on Big A Mountain near Honaker, Virginia, and carries on the tradition of quilt making that runs two centuries deep in her family.
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©2007 APPALACHIAN ARTS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE |
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