This show opens on Saturday, September 16th in Washington DC, but it was organized by the American Folk Art Museum of New York. Part of the exhibition is what they call a Community Quilt. And the curators explained "Visitors to the exhibition are invited to contribute to our community quilt. Stitch a place in the cartography of Washington, D.C., that holds special significance for you." I am not sure how that will work but I am intrigued.

I am primarily a dressmaker, not a quilter, but I have been inspired by beautiful colors and shapes in quilts. This show offers up traditional early-American quilts up to contemporary quilts. Click through to see m ore info and for some pictures.

Location: 52-19 39th Avenue, Sunnyside & 54-17 39th Avenue, Woodside

Significance: Sunnyside, (light blue knot): My grandparents, born Johannes Ferdinand Schonherr and Franziska Braun in Germany and Hungary respectively, bought the house above in 1940 and lived there until 1964. My father, John Schoenherr, also grew up there, and my mother and sister lived there for a time too.

Woodside, (green knot): My great-grandparents came from Manchester, England in 1907, and first lived in Manhattan, and then moved to Queens in the late 1910s. In 1920, they bought the house at the above address, which also was where my grandmother and mother grew up.

Stitch(es) used: French Knots

Embroidered by: @ianschoenherr

Location: Fresh Meadows to Queens College

Significance: My commuting route.

Stitch(es) used: Chain stitch

Embroidered by: Ying Zhou

Location: Cemetery of the Evergreens

Significance: Family members are buried there -- my grandparents, greatgrandparents, and others.

Stitch(es) used: Star

Embroidered by: Nancy Arcieri

Location: Far Rockaway & Bellerose

Significance: Where I lived as a child and where I live now.

Stitch(es) used: Running Stitch + Cross Stitch

Embroidered by: halsherm3

Location: 48th Street, Laurel Hill Blvd

Significance: Looking out at the graveyard with my newborn baby. Home.

Stitch(es) used: 

Embroidered by: @ladypawss

Location: My “Ancestral Home” - Mom (Madeleine Gray), her brothers, and her parents (Madeleine and Jerry Gray)

Significance: 65-47 173rd Street is where Jerome E. Gray and his wife raised six children and helped to raise 19 grandchildren. Jerome grew up in Woodside (32-19 55th St.). His great-granddaughter has put a stitch at “My House - Forest Hills.” Love, Roots & Wings.

Stitch(es) used: A chaotic, crowded yellow running stitch, just like our family homes.

Embroidered by: @vickizun - here for the Queens Chronicle, second cousin of stitcher @ianschoenherr

Location: Flushing

Significance: Where I live

Stitch(es) used: My own stitches

Embroidered by: Fran

Location: Flushing

Significance: It is the place that I have grown up in. I have a lot of fond memories of there.

Stitch(es) used: Satin stitch

Embroidered by: Carina

Location: Douglastown

Significance: Home, wetlands that we paint. Spent our formative years there. Seen changes...

Stitch(es) used: Running stitch

Embroidered by: Jyohi Sriramjyothi

Location: Floral Park

Significance:  I’ve lost this great friend in my first year of high school because of my boyfriend at the time. This special friend and I became strangers. After three years he’s finally a part of my life again. This is where he lives.

Stitch(es) used: Running stitch

Embroidered by: Nallely Ventura @_nallely_

Location: 43-30 46th St. Apt 1G, Sunnyside

Significance: Home of Bix Beiderbecke, pioneering jazz composer and musician in the 1920s. Sadly he died in 1931 at the age of 28.

Stitch(es) used: Running stitch

Embroidered by: Carolyn Carlino

Location: 108th Precinct of the New York City Police Department

Significance: Detectives from the 108th Precinct investigated a minor break-in at our Long Island City office. Don’t worry: only a few small items were taken. The event left us feeling shocked and unsettled, but also very relieved.

Stitch(es) used: Knot

Embroidered by: AFAM-CEC-STGG

Location: Cambria Heights

Significance: This is where I bought my first home. :)

Stitch(es) used: Daisy

Embroidered by: @drtkat

Location: PS 171Q

Significance: School -- I taught there for 16 years.

Stitch(es) used: ?

Embroidered by: Lana 

Location: Queensboro Bridge

Significance: I live in Westchester and work at LaGuardia Community College as a science professor so I take that bridge every day I work and I love the Manhattan/Queens views.

Stitch(es) used: Pink chain

Embroidered by: Ingrid D. Veras