Two weeks ago I started to sort out US stamps for my latest stamp collage, inspired by Kyra Hicks's story about Estella Weaver Nukes who created a Postage Stamp Quilt for Franklin D Roosevelt. This excellent book, Franklin Roosevelt's Postage Stamp Quilt tells the story of an African American woman from Indiana who presented her gift to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s. Each cotton fabric piece was just the size of a postage stamp, hence its name. Having spent the last two weeks designing, sorting stamps, placing them in a pattern which at a distance would possibly resemble an American patchwork quilt, I've finally settled on the pattern and stuck down the many stamps. Just imagine how long it must have taken to make the original stamp quilt in fabric, and how many pieces it must have taken,
sewing each tiny square by hand! I wanted to feature the 32nd US president himself prominently in my stamp collage, also including the Liberty Bell, American eagle, yellow roses, mixed roses and four different birds, including the Eastern Bluebird which proved rather elusive and was my final stamp to be stuck in place necessitating another search through the enormous pile!
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| detail showing Franklin D Roosevelt in centre |
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US Bird stamps including the Eastern Bluebird 3c
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