Detail of Pete Seeger's Peace Quilt: July, 1983.
Pete Seeger's Peace Quilt: July, 1983.
Awarded to Pete Seeger, a heartfelt tribute for courage, for hope, for musical threads that bind our lieves together.
Seeger wrote:
"The patchwork quilt is really a symbol of the world which must come: one new design made out of many old designs.
"We will stitch this world tegether yet.
"Don't give up."
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The Boise Peace Quilt Project is a nonprofit group of hopeful and determined people working to create a more peaceful world, one stitch at a time. The project stitches Peace Quilt Awards to honor peacemakers in every arena, from ecology to education and from international relations to health care. Some quilts offer friendship to people in other parts of the world, or serve as experiments in cooperative action. Other quilts are political statements. All of them are stitched cooperatively and with love.
Over the past 20 years dozens and dozens of people in the Treasure Valley and around the world have contributed to these quilts and supported the Project with time, resources, and the generous gift of themselves. We welcome new members at any time--women or men, novices or needle artists. It doesn't even matter if you can thread a needle (though it helps!). There is work of all kinds to be done.
Our work is supported through the sale of cards and posters of our quilts and by generous tax-deductible donations. For information about either, please write P.O.Box 6469, Boise, Idaho 83707.
Check back soon for our new order form for note cards and posters.
Want to suggest a worthy peacemaker for a peace quilt project? Fill out this form. (Acrobat format. Download a free copy of Acrobat Reader.)
Instructions for quilt block makers (Acrobat format. Download a free copy of Acrobat Reader.)
