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This Is Not a Real Quilt by Elizabeth Barton

Size: 34" x 34" including fringe
Clinical psychologist, University of Georgia; quiltmaker. I got into both quilting and the Internet because I like puzzles and creative problem solving. There are very few art quilters where I live, so it's great to have "compatriots in the ether."

My piece is about homelessness and people who are shoved out of psychiatric wards where they had a kind of home for years--not great but it was safe. Society had promised these people would be cared for (given a real quilt), but they were not - hence "Not a Real Quilt." I'm afraid this is a rather somber, ironic piece - not like me at all, but the more I thought about the phrase "Not a Real Quilt" the more I thought of these people.