Each square of the quilt is made by someone like you who puts their name and then the name of a civilian victim on a square of fabric. These are then sewn together to create a quilt panel that can be used in many ways:
- to raise awareness,
- for political advocacy,
- to connect us deeply to the victims of drone warfare and their families,
- to convert pain into beautiful, activist art.
Drones are remotely detonated weapons. They can be used in the Middle East, for example, but detonated by someone in Nebraska. They reduce human beings to dots on a screen, tiny blobs of light in the control room of an army base. The quilt restores humanity to those killed or maimed and reminds people that for every single victim of a drone there was a real person with loves, desires and a life.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
1. Contact Leah Bolger at leahbolger@comcast.net. Leah will give you the name of a person who you will be honoring. There are many anonymous victims too, so some squares will honor the un-named.
2. Cut a square of cotton fabric 10 inches x 10 inches.
3. Sew, write, embroider or paint your name and the name of someone killed by a drone onto your square. Be as creative as you want! Leave a margin of at least 1/2 inch around the edge for seams.