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- Hihanni Waste, everybody.
[speaking Lakota] Bonnie LeBeaux.
[speaking Lakota]
I'm glad you're here.
My name is Bonnie LeBeaux.
My Lakota name, my given Lakota name is Wigmunke Was'te Win.
It is, I am a fourth-generation carrier of that name.
My grandmother gave it to me
after I came home from the service.
I served in the Navy for three years
as a cryptologic technician.
I have been quilting for approximately 28 years.
This is my presentation.
"Align Yourself with the Stars."
That's kind of, like, my tagline.
I'm Lakota on my father's side, Diné Navajo on my mother's side.
So yes, this is me.
A few of my hobbies,
I like to occasionally jump on my motorcycle.
It's a little, a little different now that I'm 50.
[all laugh]
Yes, my sewing and my daughter's cat. [laughs]
So like I said,
my name in Lakota is Wigmunke Was'te Win.
I wanted to show you a map
of what my father's people, the Lakota,
the territory that we covered prior to colonization.
We were a nation that was all the way from Canada
all the way down to Oklahoma area.
From Wisconsin all the way to the Rocky Mountains
is what our territory we covered.
So the Lakota Nation is one of three
of what we call the Oceti Sakowin.
And of course, I'm Lakota,
and within the Lakota Nation, there are different bands,
and there are seven of them.
My family comes from the Oohenumpa,
which translates to "Two Kettle."
So that's where my family is from.
Currently, the Cheyenne River Reservation
where I grew up, born and raised,
is approximately 3 million acres.
We have a, the land base is probably
about the size of Connecticut.
We have 16,000 enrolled members,
not all living within the boundaries
of the Cheyenne River Reservation.
The reservation was established in 1868,
and I am proud to say that today,
my brother is actually the chairman.
So yeah, that's kind of a bonus. [chuckles]
Within the boundaries of the Cheyenne River Reservation,
when the reservation was created,
the bands of the Lakota people dispersed
throughout the territories within South Dakota.
My reservation, we recognize four of those bands,
and you can see those on the flag
in the lower right-hand corner.
So with my presentation, "Align Yourself with the Stars,"
I'd like to go over with you the beginning of the star quilt
prior to its introduction to the Native people.
And then I'd like to share with you
a couple of short, brief Lakota star stories
that correlate with the design of the star.
And then I will go over with you the reasons and why
and when we give a star quilt within my family.
I will share with you my history, my family history,
and then I have a little portfolio,
and we will do questions after that.
So in the beginning, prior to colonization,
the Lakota people depended on the buffalo.
Our societies actually mimicked the life of a buffalo
and the way that they...
The way that they lived on the prairie.
So, like, for instance,
a buffalo will have a calf every two or three years.
And it is our custom to have a child
within that timeframe so that your children are spaced
within that two to three-year period.
I followed that with my kids.
Sometimes I wonder still if that was the right thing to do.
[all laugh] But yes, I had my kids young.
So all my three kids are all over the age of 20.
Another example would be
that when the buffalo are under attack,
they surround them, they surround the youth,
the female buffaloes, the wounded.
The younger buffaloes will make a protection around them.
And of course, that's what we did prior to colonization.
That's what our warriors did for our women and children.
So when the...
After the Dawes Act in,
I can't remember the year, but the... [chuckles]
It's really hard to talk about.
They wanted to get rid of us, basically.
So they said, "Okay, well, we need to get rid of the buffalo."
And that's what this picture correlates with.
This first picture on the left, it is buffalo hides.
I think there are about 50, I think,
I believe it was 40,000 buffalo hides in this camp here.
So you can imagine the amount of buffalo
that roamed the prairies.
And in correlation, I cannot even fathom
how many people passed away of my people.
The second picture, that's a picture of my daughter.
We were visiting a museum.
And of course, that's a famous picture,
all buffalo skulls.
So with the decline of the buffalo,
which of course meant the decline of people.
So in the beginning,
once the buffalo were starting to be hunted and shot,
missionaries came to the area,
and they started schools for the young Lakota people.
And not only the Lakota people, but the Native population.
On the right is a picture of the boarding school
that my grandmother went to in South Dakota
when she was eight years old.
She had three siblings,
and they all went to this boarding school.
The picture of the teepee is actually the woman
that taught at the school.
This is her collection of pictures in the Smithsonian.
That's where I got these pictures from.
So this was everyday life
in what is called the boarding school.
So they sent their, by law, sent their children
to these missionary-type boarding schools,
and they stayed there for pretty much the full year.
So if you can imagine sending your child away
for a long time, for throughout the whole year,
not being able to touch them, hold them, kiss them.
This was the life for many of our Native children
from the age of eight to when they,
you can see that these gals
are probably teenage years, I suppose.
And I, in my research, I, it states that
for at least one hour of education,
there was three hours of work.
So you need to imagine actually how many,
how many hours of actual education these children got.
This here is a different school.
So like I said, one hour of education,
three hours of domestic work
to keep the boarding school running.
But it did provide learning how to do the modern-day sewing.
All of the girls probably took classes, I suppose,
on how to use a sewing machine
and make different things.
So when the missionaries came,
it wasn't just the boarding schools
that taught the children; it was...
They also recruited the women of the tribe to come and sew.
And they had sewing circles.
Of course, our women knew how to sew already.
But of course, with machines,
and then with the missionaries, they brought the,
what we now call the lone star design,
which is the eight-pointed star.
And if you remember, at that point in time,
the buffalo were on the decline.
And our people used the buffalo for everything.
We used it for our shelter, we used it for our survival
with, for food, our clothing.
Everything revolved around the buffalo.
So with the decline of the buffalo, we had some,
we needed something to replace that.
And when this was, this pattern was introduced, it clicked.
And we pretty much adopt, we pretty much overdone
on the design, and that is because of the star.
So we also call ourselves,
say that we come from the Star Nation.
And when we say Star Nation,
that means the heavens, the stars.
That we believe that that is where we came from.
And so when they introduced this pattern,
it's somewhat of a geometrical pattern,
and you can see how it correlates with the designs
that we were already using.
So easy to put a star into any part of those designs.
So you could take this star and manipulate it.
I don't have a picture of it,
but you can do half diamonds the short way,
you can do half diamonds the long way.
And so it was very easy to manipulate this pattern
with the patterns that we were,
the designs that we were already using.
So we come from the stars.
We believe that when a baby is born,
it comes from the heavens down to Earth.
So that Milky Way, when you see, when you see it,
it makes this arc across the sky.
And so the baby comes from the Milky Way,
that path comes down to Earth, and it receives a star quilt.
So throughout its life, there's different times
that we would give the child, the young adult, the adult,
the older person, a star quilt.
That's what would be gifted.
When we pass away, then of course,
we're going back to the stars.
So then we make that journey back into the star
and we walk that path, and it's a circle.
So it's just a continuous circle of life, I suppose.
This other picture is a photo of the morning star,
and it is considered by my people
the most sacred time of the day.
And it is when we like to get up and pray.
I'm a morning person, so mornings are always my favorite.
Nobody's awake except me.
So it's a perfect time to meditate,
say your prayers, smudge.
Yeah, so that's one story, the Milky Way story.
And then we have the Big Dipper.
So the Big Dipper has seven stars,
and there's a couple of different correlations
between the number seven.
So in my culture, we have seven Lakota values,
and each star would represent a value of generosity,
humbleness, leadership, wisdom, and so forth.
So each star represents in that way.
Like I said before, we are called the Seven Council Fires.
So that's the number seven.
So this constellation is very important to my people.
Let's see, there's one more.
So another story is the story of Blue Woman.
It was said a long time ago that the,
there was a star in the middle of that cup, and it fell.
So there's a woman and her name is Blue Woman,
and she sits in the middle of that cup.
And when a baby is born, she's the one
that lets it go through.
When we pass away, she's also the one
that lets you back on the other side.
So she sits there.
And there's also a joke in my family, [laughs]
okay, if you haven't learned your lesson,
she's gonna kick you back down.
[all laugh]
So yeah, that's, I don't know if that part's true or not,
but yeah, that's the Big Dipper story.
So why we give.
Like I said, when a baby comes to earth,
it is gifted a star quilt
because we believe that they came from the stars.
This little girl here, this chubby little girl,
that's my daughter, my youngest daughter.
At this point in time, I was probably quilting
for maybe 10, 12 years.
And she received actually about four star quilts.
My son, however, received one.
[all laugh]
So yeah, this is a picture of her.
My grandmother gifted her this quilt.
And then in the middle there, that is my nephew Pierce.
He is actually graduating Head Start.
He completed two years of Head Start and he wanted a quilt.
So that was probably his second quilt
that was gifted to him.
I think it was Iron Man.
There was an Iron Man theme or something.
Yeah.
And then the other little girl, that is also my niece.
She wantedFrozen, I believe it was.
Yeah, so the young ones,
they get to pick out what theme they like
at that point in time in their life,
and I try to accommodate that request.
So early in life, birth time, they get a quilt,
and then it just keeps rolling from there.
Sport accomplishments; our young people love sports
where I live on the reservation.
Basketball has always been the number-one sport. [laughs]
So the gentleman on the right
took his senior pictures with the quilt
that his mother ordered from me, and those are our school colors.
The girl on the left is his sister,
and she was a cheerleader for four years in high school,
and this was the last home game that she cheered at,
and they honored her at the gymnasium with a star quilt.
So that's another accomplishment that we like to honor.
So when we say honor, that's exactly what it is.
It's a accomplishment that our young people make,
and we recognize that for encouragement,
for, yeah, encouragement to keep going
to do good things for our people.
Graduation is another accomplishment.
This first picture on the left was an eighth grade graduation.
That's my brother and I.
We have two kids; he has a kid, I have a kid.
They're both the same age, and they are on the right,
Liana and Nation.
So this was the eighth grade promotion ceremony
that they have a big little to-do,
and they get, the eighth-graders get quilts
and we honor them, sing them a song,
and they move on to high school. [chuckles]
The middle one is my cousin.
We made her that quilt for her college graduation,
her four-year college graduation.
Yes, graduation is actually the biggest time of the year.
I have probably about 40,
40 to 50 quilt orders for graduation.
I start my orders right after Christmas.
People have already put in orders for next year.
So yeah, so you can imagine how hectic it gets
right after Christmas.
I have recently picked up a couple of orders
from different schools.
A school in Iowa last year ordered 50.
The year prior to that, I think it was like,
a 35 order from somewhere in Minnesota.
This is another eighth grade graduation.
This is my nephew in the blue.
Before the school year started, he said, "Auntie,
I'm graduating eighth grade; I want a blue quilt."
And that's what he got.
[all laugh]
The middle is a senior graduation.
We have at my school, or at our local school,
they have what they call the senior honoring.
So they take a special day right before graduation
and they have a little powwow, they're presented,
the family presents them with quilts
and a feather at that time.
And we have a drum group and it's just,
the gymnasium is full of quilts and graduates
and good vibes and lots of singing.
The other picture is my niece; she graduated,
I think it's eighth grade.
Yeah, that was this past year.
My daughter and I were gifting her the quilt,
and we wrapped them in the quilt and get our pictures,
and move on to the next graduate.
Not only are our graduations a time of honoring,
but also, like I said, major accomplishments.
The gentleman in the turquoise quilt,
turquoise and black quilt, his name is Dr. Weasel,
and he is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
And he climbed Mount Everest. [audience exclaims]
He was the first Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member
to climb Mount Everest.
And yeah, they had news articles on him,
and I was actually hired to make a quilt for him.
And this was at our annual Labor Day powwow, I think.
I believe it was last year that he came
and the tribe honored him with a presentation
of the quilt and of course, an honor song.
And everybody was there that got to go
and shake hands with him.
And he got to tell his story.
It was quite an accomplishment.
The other picture is a picture of my daughter and my son there.
This was during her graduation, and they did a feather ceremony
where the graduates received a feather from their family
and, of course, a quilt.
Another honoring, how we give.
There isn't any particular law of how you need to give a quilt.
So this gentleman here in the blue and black quilt,
he is the downstairs neighbor to my daughters.
My daughters went to school in Kansas this past year,
and he was their neighbor downstairs,
and he just took care of them like his own daughters.
And I was very grateful for him.
He watched out for them.
He just, he was just always there.
So when my daughter Raya graduated, she's,
I'm wrapping her in a quilt on the other page
around the other picture.
We invited him over to our Airbnb
and we honored him with a quilt just to say thank you
for everything that you have provided
for my family, for my girls.
And we sang him a little, put him in the middle
of the living room and wrapped him in a quilt
and said thank you, and gave him a song.
And he was...
So it doesn't, you don't have to be Native,
is what I'm trying to get at, I guess.
The other picture is the reception for my daughter.
She graduated Haskell.
That quilt was made with the Haskell colors,
and you can kind of see the Haskell emblem.
Yeah, so when we make the honoring,
we put them in the center of the people
and we wrap them with the quilt.
And she was very honored. [chuckles]
She was very humbled by all the people that showed up,
that traveled to Kansas to celebrate with her.
Another way to honor somebody that has passed
is we do what we call memorials.
And it's usually a year after your loved one passes
is when we hold the memorial.
And that can include something simple,
something that correlates with the person,
the person's life.
It can be a grand event.
This one here in particular is my cousin's stepdad's memorial.
So this was just a few weeks ago or last week maybe.
She had ordered, over the past year and a half,
ordered different colors of quilts from me,
just a couple at a time.
So I think we ended up with five.
So her stepdad was a men's traditional fancy dancer.
He danced at powwows for competition for,
I don't know how many years, but he had passed
probably a little over a year ago.
And her family decided to have this
men's traditional fancy dance competition at the powwow.
[chuckles]
So what they do is they have this,
what they call a special.
During the powwow, they will hire a drum group
and they will, at this particular one,
they danced five songs.
So it's somewhat of a competition.
So you dance your five songs and they have judges
and they say, "Okay, you're out, you're out, you're out."
And then they keep going and then, "Okay, you're out,"
and pretty soon, you're down to five dancers.
And then they categorize them.
First place gets this, second place.
But in this event, all five of them got a quilt.
I'm not sure what else that they received,
but that's another way to honor your loved one.
That's a popular way for people that do the powwow circuit.
Another memorial besides the powwow is rodeo.
I'm not quite sure how it works, but...
So within the competition,
whoever has the highest point ride,
I believe, or just a special, I guess, is what.
So they give a star quilt.
Sometimes they'll add money to the prize.
I know that the satin quilt on the far left
was for a team roper.
And I'm not quite sure how they decided that he won,
but this is the picture that they sent me.
Another memorial in honor of my friend's dad
was the winner of the saddle bronc was given a quilt
and a buckle it looks like, and probably money.
So that's another version of a memorial.
Another type of memorial would be a feed and giveaway.
This is my dad's giveaway when he passed away.
We, for a whole year, we gathered quilts, we made quilts,
we bought quilts.
And when the day came, we fed the people that came
and we gave everything away. [chuckles]
So that is how we judge wealth in our culture.
It's not by how much you accumulate;
it's by how much you give away.
So that's what that represents in,
when I say giveaway, a memorial giveaway.
Sometimes, families will gather up to,
I've seen up to 50 quilts.
So they rent the gymnasium and they hang all the quilts up,
and they have a feed and honor song.
And sometimes, they'll have what they call
a wiping of the tears ceremony.
And that is when you have a ceremony
and you say, "Okay, your times of grieving is over.
You need to move on with your life."
The top picture is actually a veteran
that came home from the service,
and he was honored by his family with a quilt
and a Lakota name.
These are some of the favorite quilts
that I like to make is for veterans.
This one is actually a Marine quilt,
and this will go to the lady that ordered it for her veteran.
When, well, when I get home, I guess. [laughs]
Baby quilt.
And then, who I come from.
So I am actually a fourth-generation,
from what I know of,
fourth-generation seamstress quilter.
My great-grandmother on my father's side, Eudora Traversy,
I have quilt blocks of hers
that she made out of flour sacks,
and I think that's very popular back in those days.
She hand-embroidered on them.
My grandmother, Marcella, she...
From what I remember when I was younger, she would come home
with these big rolls of satin, shiny fabrics,
and she'd lay 'em out on the living room floor
and pretty soon, the next day,
my aunts had a prom dress. [laughs]
So she was not, you know,
in the beginning, she wasn't really a quilter,
but she did make baby quilts and...
But what I remember most is the prom dresses
that she made for my aunts.
My mother is Diné, like I said, she is Navajo.
She is from the Weaver Clan for the Red Forehead.
She has been sewing ever since I can remember.
Her graduation gift from her mother
was an actual sewing machine.
And I remember that machine sitting on the kitchen table
very vividly because when dinner came,
I was the one that had to pack it away
and put it back up when dinner was over. [chuckles]
Yeah, so Lakota on my dad's side and Diné on my mother's side,
and that's her mother in the picture with her,
my grandmother, and my three kids.
These are some exhibits that I have had over,
well, over my career, my quilting career.
You can see the buffalo quilt.
I have a buffalo quilt displayed over in the hall
if you wanna go check that out.
And the eagle quilt.
And one of my quilt racks.
Yeah, and then, okay, now we're back to the display.
So these are just quilts that I have made over the years.
Unfortunately, I don't get a picture of every quilt.
I think that I make probably anywhere
from 275 to 300 quilts a year.
So...
So when-- I was just over at the ladies
that are doing the appraisals, and I was kind of listening.
And then you see the extraordinary quilting,
there's no way that I could make that many quilts
and do the custom quilting.
So this one here, I did freehand on my machine,
just took the machine over and freehanded it.
This one, oh, this one I did freehand also.
So yeah, I find that doing the freehand,
free-motion quilting is a lot faster
than the computerized, which this one here is computerized.
This one took me forever.
This one here is freehanded.
And then what to do with all the extra cuttings
of the diamonds I made.
Tried to, tried to, I try to use them.
But yeah, I made a bag, a couple of bags,
and then I have another quilt over in the hall
with just the diamonds.
So that was kind of extraordinary.
If you guys could go check that out.
This is a queen-size quilt.
I really do like to work with the,
what we call sunset colors.
That is kind of my, that's my favorite.
Pink, not so much my favorite.
[audience laughs]
Another veteran quilt.
This one is custom quilted for,
I believe that was, like, for a raffle.
That's another popular thing is people will raffle quilts.
They'll buy a quilt
and then they'll raffle it off for whatever event.
Police officer quilt.
That's another popular item.
I think that is screen printed on the corner,
if I remember right, with the officer's name.
That may have been a funeral quilt.
That's another time that you get a quilt,
but you probably don't know it. [all laugh]
Veteran quilt.
And the four colors, the black, red, yellow, white,
those four colors are significant within my culture.
Probably other cultures also.
It represents the four cardinal directions.
Some say it represents the four colors of the four races.
I don't know, maybe.
Another veteran quilt.
Sunset colors.
I don't remember which one this is,
but I've made a few of those, unfortunately.
This here was a wall hanging
that I won People's Choice at Native Pop.
It's a Native art market in Rapid City
that's held every summer.
I entered this into the juried competition.
I did not win, but I did win the next day,
the People's Choice award.
So this is a woman in a headdress,
and it is in recognition of one of the ladies
that fought at Battle of the Little Big Horn.
We always were told that women don't fight,
but yes, they did.
So she has her shawl and the fringe,
and the little shells on her dress.
I think she even has earrings.
Yeah, she does.
Oh, and then you can see the horse hair coming off of the,
the war bonnet.
Baby quilt.
High school graduation quilt.
Another sunset one.
Baby quilt.
And of course, the sunset quilt. [laughs]
Yeah, you can tell that's my favorite.
And this is, this was a wall hanging that went
to New York City; prior to it going to New York,
my brother saw it and he's like, "Wow, Bonnie,
you need to make that one your logo."
So, of course, I did.
So yes, that's me, Bonnie LeBeaux Quilts.
Align yourself with the stars.
I have a website, Facebook, Instagram.
Thank you; wopila.
[audience applauds]
So I don't know if anybody has any questions.
How much do I get for a quilt?
It depends on the size.
Full size, $395 is what I charge.
Of course, you could probably go higher than that,
but I always like to think that...
I don't; the people that are buying it, buying the quilts
and what they're doing with it
has a lot to play in that price also.
- Audience Member 1: You do all the work yourself?
- I, up until a couple of years ago, yes, I did.
I do have a couple ladies that help me with the basic sewing,
and then they'll hand it off to me to make the star.
And I do all my own quilting though.
Yeah, I do have help with the sewing.
You probably all know how it goes when you see
the piece of fabric that you just love.
Yeah, it's usually the fabric that, with this one here,
this is what they call, it's a company in Canada,
49 Dzine is what they're called.
And it's, they specialize in Native artists
and put their prints into fabric.
So I came across this one here, and I just basically
just matched the star with the fabric.
[laughs] Kind of did the opposite.
Yeah, thank you.
- Audience Member 2: Do you have like a,
do you use the machine to cut your stuff out
or do you, does everybody?
- No, I use a rotary cutter, and my elbow can tell you.
[all laugh]
How many hours a week do I spend sewing? [laughs]
My typical day, I am usually up by, up and sewing by 6:00.
And then maybe 10:00 or so, I'll take a break
and then do what I have to do.
Go check the mail, all the boring stuff. [laughs]
And then back to sewing and quilting.
Yeah, it's my passion.
People will say, "Well, don't you get sick of it?"
No, I don't.
So yeah, it's my passion.
Oh, do I prefer a specific type of fabric?
It depends on the design.
I have done quilts with cotton and satin.
So like this one here, I've mixed.
You can see there's a satin, the black satin.
I've made entirely satin quilts.
I, for me, I don't, it doesn't matter.
I guess I figure that my grandmother made quilts
with flour sacks,
so I can make quilts with whatever I want. [laughs]
But yeah, but like I said,
I was with the appraisers earlier
and I'm like, wow, there's so much that goes into a quilt
if you want to make it an antique, I guess.
- Audience Member 3: Could you talk a little bit more
about when the star quilt came to your people?
Was it late 1800s, early?
- We kind of traced it back to between 1880,
somewhere in there.
Like I said, it would've started
like on this side of the United States, Wisconsin area,
and then made its way further west.
So we figured probably about 1880, somewhere in there.
Maybe earlier, because the school
that my grandmother went to, St. Mary's or St. Elizabeth's,
that was established in 1890, I believe.
So we know that they were there in South Dakota at that time.
Yeah.
- Audience Member 4: You mentioned seven stars
and that that meant a lot to your people,
but your quilts are eight stars.
Can you explain that again?
- Just the fact that this is a star.
- Oh. - Yeah, it doesn't have
anything to do with the points.
Yeah, it's just the fact that it's just the one star
and it was easily manipulated into the geometric patterns.
She asked if the quilts
that were given away at the giveaway
were the property of the person that passed away.
So for my family, when my grandmother passed away,
she had a whole stack of quilts.
And she used to say, "You can judge your own life
"by however many times you've been honored
with a star quilt."
So she had a whole stack.
She was a remarkable woman.
For her quilts, mostly they went to family members.
And then when we had her memorial,
we collected the quilts over the years
and gave new quilts.
Yeah; did you have a question?
- Audience Member 5: How big is your sewing room?
- [laughs] Well, I've had one, two,
I've had four different sewing spaces
over my quilting career.
The first one was of course in the kitchen. [laughs]
My, one morning I woke up
and my daughters were packing my stuff off the table
and they said, "You're moving downstairs."
So that's what I did.
Yeah, and then I moved from basement
to the next house basement.
And now I have my own quilting space, my own work studio
that I just recently moved into over the last couple of months.
So that's something new that I am adjusting to.
I don't get to roll out of bed and go downstairs.
I have to drive. [all laugh]
Yeah.
Do I use a longarm?
Yes, I have.
My very first machine was a Nolting.
That's what I used to do the free-hand on.
And within the last six years, I had purchased a Gammill,
and that's the computerized.
So I have two machines. [laughs]
Do I have younger members of my family
that are teaching, that I'm teaching?
Yeah, both of my daughters know how to make star quilts.
My mother will help me.
She doesn't like to, but she will. [laughs]
She's more, she's more of a clothing person.
So yeah, I have two daughters that will help me.
They do know how, but they haven't picked it up
as a passion, yeah.
Do I use a program to design my work?
No, I don't.
I did purchase one, but it just...
It was taking too long to learn.
So this is what I use.
I just use my color pencils
and make my designs out on paper.
If I, you know, if I have to, if I have to see it on paper.
Something like this though,
I'll just use the colors and arrange 'em and sew 'em.
Nothing really, really technical, techy about that.
She asked how long it takes me to piece a pattern, a quilt.
If I were to sit down, start to finish,
I could probably finish a quilt in six to eight hours.
When my dad passed away, I did one in four.
Yeah, start to finish, yeah.
I do the strip method.
So I would sew one, two, three,
four, five, six strips all together.
And then do one for each section,
each line of the diamond,
and then you'd cut 'em on the diagonal
and then you sew the strips together this way.
So then you have one big diamond.
And then you sew this diamond against that diamond.
This section, this section, this section, this section.
And then you put two with four and then two and two.
And then you put your corners in and the borders.
Well, thank you everybody.
Wopila for having me.
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