Edmonds Art Beat: Local artist part of nationwide effort to complete quilt; ARTSplash arrives next weekend
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: July 9, 2021 Chris Cossu with embroidered piece. Local artist Chris Cossu is a mixed media and fiber artist and semi-retired creative director/producer for advertising. In 2019, Chris was selected to embroider the Washington state portion of the Rita’s Quilt. Rita’s Quilt is a heart-warming project about a women, Shannon Downey, who purchased a quilt at an estate sale in Chicago where a 99-year-old woman named Rita Smith used to live. At the sale, Downey found hundreds of pieces of fabric that had been intended for a big quilting project Smith had started befor...
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