"I'm Hungry, Where can I sleep tonight? I want my Mother!"

Information about Quilt:

Approximate Size: 50 x 70
Print Squares are of an African or Polyesnian printed fabric surrounded by hand died fabrics in a simplistic design. The quilt is machine quilted and stitching is accents the printed fabric. The machine quilter, Anita Shakelford, a template quilt designer's donated her services to Mennonite Central Committee, when she heard of the work MCC does globally. The quilt was made by Marlys Wiens. Anita and Marlys met at the Minnesota Quilt Show in Duluth, MN in 2009, where Anita was the Quilt Judge. The added benefit of this quilt has been quilt donations outside the Mennonite and Amish communities.  The quilt's meaning grew when Marlys visited the Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay, South America, in 2009 when on the streets of Ascension she met Carol Ann Weaver and daughter from Kitchner, Ontario and discussed the issue of Aids.  A fellow professor of Carol's "advised" her that she "needed" to write a song bringing awareness to the Aids crisis in the world as a person dies from aids every four seconds.  Four seconds would be a good beat to a song.  As the group talked, Marlys shared that he had a childhood friend in Kitchner, Ontario who she knew from rural Minnesota.  As Carol and Marlys talked further, they realized they were talking about the same person, Lowell Ewert, the Peace Professor at Conrad Grabel.  Carol's CD is available from her called "Every 3 Children" with the song inspired by Lowell.

The picture was taken in the wind with the State of Minnesota Capitol in the background.

The Quilt was sold at the Twin Cities MCC Relief Sale in 2010.