{"id":6444,"date":"2019-02-25T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:05:25","slug":"quilting-is-inclusive-disabled-quilters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/25\/quilting-is-inclusive-disabled-quilters\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilting is Inclusive: Disabled Quilters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet Priscilla and Richard from Long Beach, California. Road 2019 was their first time at the show because Priscilla has only been quilting for a year. Their quilting instructor, <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/quilting-knows-no-barriers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gloria Molina (opens in a new tab)\">Gloria Molina<\/a>, invited them and other members of their quilting group to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Disabled-Quilters2.jpg\" alt=\"disabled quilters\" class=\"wp-image-6445\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Priscilla\u2019s quilting group is unique:\n&nbsp;It is made up of all disabled women.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their disabled\nquilters group has been meeting for about a year at the East Los Angeles\nCommunity Center. It was the center who saw a need for a disabled quilters\ngroup and approached Gloria to see if she could lead it. <\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Disabled-Quilters.jpg\" alt=\"disabled quilters\" class=\"wp-image-6446\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gloria, a former Los Angeles County Supervisor, has made a name for herself in the quilting world. \u00a0As a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TelasDeLaVidaTheElaStitchers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TELAS  (opens in a new tab)\">TELAS <\/a>(The East Los Angeles Stitchers), Gloria and her group work to promote their heritage and culture through quilting. In 2014, TELAS and a Mexican quilting group from Puebla, Mexico, teamed up to provide a Special Exhibit at Road featuring angels, a translation of both of their cities\u2019 names.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Angel-exhibit-2014.jpg\" alt=\"TELAS\" class=\"wp-image-6447\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Road 2019, Gloria and her group sponsored the Special Exhibit, Catrina.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/344A0542-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"TELAS\" class=\"wp-image-6448\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disabled\nquilters group meets three times a month. \u201cWe all have different limitations,\nbut we are all into quilting,\u201d said Priscilla. &nbsp;How do they make quilting inclusive? \u201cWe find\na way around our disabilities and help each other to make it work for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Priscilla was\ndiagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at 8 years of age. She was told that she\nwouldn\u2019t live past age 20 but here she is, 50 years old and has been married 28\nyears. \u201cThe power of doing has kept me alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far,\nPriscilla has made three quilts. Richard cuts out the fabric and sets up the\nsewing machine. \u201cI love quilting,\u201d said Priscilla. \u201cIt has become my hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard has\nalso become a fan of sewing. He enjoys helping Priscilla and hopes to make a Washington\nRedskins blanket soon.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did\nPriscilla and Richard think about their first time at Road? They loved looking\nat all the patterns, materials, and of course, the \u201cbeautiful quilts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quilting is\nan inclusive community!! Do you know of any other disabled quilter groups?<\/p>\n]]>\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}