Comforter Art Action Blanket # 108
FABRICATION (LOCATION & DATE):
- 2012 - A box of squares arrives from P. Maloney (of Parksville, BC). She writes that they had been abandoned, in a basement since the mid-80s. She writes that Jennifer Coleman sewed them in collaboration with Wayne Cameron who was the designer. Paula found them and managed to wash the mildew smell from them before packing them up and sending them to CAA in 2012.
- 2013 - The squares inspire a group of sewers at Trinity United Church (Vancouver, BC) to make a few more squares, alternate them with solid squares, and produce 2 matching blankets during 2 sewing circles in spring (#108 and #109).
TRANSIT:
- July 17 2013 - July 26 2013 P. Calore (BORDER ANGELS) escorts Blanket # 108 from Vancouver, Canada to San Diego, USA - by car, bus, and train.
Labeling:
August 30 2013 - P. Calore hosts a label sewing event at her place in San Diego. Thank you Gloria, Edna, Juliana and Elizabeth (BORDER ANGELS volunteers) for your help with this final sewing action!
Delivery:
- September 22, 2013 - Pamela Calore and other BORDER ANGELS volunteers deliver Comforter Art Action Blanket # 108 and others to "Casa Refugio Micaela" in Tijuana, Mx. About half of the blankets in this Tijuan-bound shipment were taken to this shelter and the other half were distributed out of doors to the people living in a relief campsite for displaced people living in and around the canels in Tijuana, Mx.