Dorothy Logan

Quilts

“There is something about beautiful fabric that speaks to my soul.”

Dorothy Logan

Dorothy Logan’s love of quilting began as a child when she would quilt on her doll’s quilt with a thread that did not hold a knot.  Though her professional life took her in other directions, working as an administrative assistant and later licensed insurance agent, she continued to perfect her quilting skills.  A hallmark of her work, which includes everything from table runners and place mats to tote bags to wall hangings, is its rich blending of machine and hand quilting.

Logan takes great pleasure in creating these quilted items of beauty and utility for the home.  But it’s the 70” x 70” Underground Railroad Sampler quilt she created and donated to the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama to honor her role model, Harriet Tubman that fills her with special pride. 

The quilt sprang from a deep desire to honor Tubman’s enormous courage in creating the “underground railroad” – a network of safe homes enabling slaves to escape captivity -- as well as speak out against lingering racial prejudice.  The quilt, which hangs next to a painting of Rosa Parks, is located across the street from the spot where Parks was taken off the bus and arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.  This small act of protest started the Montgomery bus boycott, which ultimately sparks the civil rights movement. Asked how she felt about having her quilt seen by thousands of people each year: “It [feels] like I helped build a bridge from the past to the present to the future.”