Navajo Quilt Project Donation
The Navajo Quilt Project gathers fabric, quilting supplies and finished quilts to donate to the women that live on the Navajo Nation. We also collect monetary donations and use it to purchase scissors, thread and batting so that the women can quilt in the winter and make beautiful, warm blankets for their families.
Susan Hudson
P.O. Box 223
Ignacio, CO 81137
Watch Susan on Craft in America:
https://www.craftinamerica.org/short/susan-hudson-segment
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Alberta Begay
PO Box 248
Red Valley, AZ 86544
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Maggie Mae Lincoln
P.O. Box 571
Ganado, AZ 86505
Lola Woods
PO Box 1633
Window Rock, AZ. 86515
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Honorable Amber K. Crotty
PO Box I
Sheep Springs, NM 87364
How The Navajo Quilt Project Began....
I have been visiting the Navajo Nation since I was a little girl and my mom and dad would take all seven of us out to Arizona and Utah to camp in Monument Valley. I had no idea that seeds were being planted for a calling later in life.
Fifteen years ago, when JZ, Sofia and I moved from New York to Los Angeles, we traveled through the Navajo Nation and stopped off at the trading posts along the way. We bought Navajo rugs at Hubbell, Toadlena and Shonto. I began meeting the locals and learning about a very simple way of life. I fell down the rabbit hole. I sat with weavers and spinners and natural dyers and learned more about history, craft and landscape than I bargained for. I had no idea of the condition of life in the Navajo Nation. We have continued to visit this Native American territory, covering about 17,544,500 acres, and have found it to be a place of great beauty as well as great need. The population continues to disproportionately struggle with health problems, unemployment, and the effects of past uranium mining accidents
Five years ago, I met Maggie Mae Lincoln, a Navajo grandma, at Griswold's Trading Post in Shiprock, New Mexico while we were both buying wool. She asked me if I was a weaver and once we began our conversation, I learned that she was a weaver in the summer and a quilter in the winter. She told me that she had no access to fabric since there were no quilt shops on the reservation. I told her I would send her fabric from my collection - and that day, The Navajo Quilt Project began.
Purchase The Navajo Quilt Project Tote HERE
Thank you for your participation and help in this very worthy cause to help keep our sisters warm and able to create quilts to trade and sell.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest
walls of oppression and resistance." — Robert F. Kennedy
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SENIOR CENTERS TO VISIT IF YOU ARE DRIVING THROUGH THE NAVAJO NATION - THESE CENTERS ARE NOT OPEN EVERYDAY - PLEASE CALL BEFORE YOU MAKE THE TREK!
Emily Harvey
Many Farms Senior Center
Many Farms, AZ . 86538
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Rena Murphy
Puebla Pontado Senior Center
Cuba, NM . 87013
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Emerson Tully
Nahodishgish Senior Center
Crownpoint, NM . 87313
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Bonnie Crank
Olijato Senior Center
Monument Valley, UT 84536
Requests: batting, sewing threads, rotary cutters, needles, straight pins