Freddie's Quilt Panels

Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

Freddie has many quilt panels in various blocks of the quilt. The number has grown over the years.

In 1993, Royal Vision, the North American Queen Fan Club arranged for the six blocks bearing panels (there are more panels now, but that's all there were back then) for Freddie to be displayed at Oberlin College during the annual Queevention. The Queenvention that year was held in Oberlin near Cleveland, Ohio. The first evening there, we held a special candlelight memorial for Freddie and all those named on the panels that were there, and finished off with everyone singing "Love of My Life." Later during the convention, our group made another panel.

I have finally located a photo of the panel our group made, thanks to Jane Marmo who very graciously sent me a copy of the photo and allowed me to use it on this web page. As of the last time I heard, the quilt panel had never actually been submitted to be an official part of one of the official quilt blocks because the sewing was not finished.

For those who argue that AIDS doesn't affect everyone, seeing a part of the quilt should change their minds. The panels were for all sorts of people, including perhaps the saddest panel among those we saw one with a small baby's dress and booties for a child who couldn't have been more than a year old.

For more information about the Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt click here to go to their page.

The first photo shows what one of the full quilt blocks looks like. Each panel in the block is three feet by six feet long. The rest are closeups of individual panels and one partial block.


This last photo is the photo Jane Marmo donated of the quilt panel made by the Royal Vision convention group in 1993.

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