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               my mom had a
               quilt like that































































               Hmong "Crunch Crunch" 1990s. Purchased in Seattle’s Pike Market in 1993.33"x35½" Fabric: Cotton with
               embroidery. Batting: None. Backing: Crisp-textured white woven fabric. Edge: Turned ½" to the back and
               hemmed by hand. Piecing: By machine; embroidery by hand. Quilting: None. Condition: Excellent. Com-
               ment: Hmong immigrants settled in the Snoqualmie Valley in the early 1990s and began marketing crafts. I
               saw this first at a street fair and regretted not buying it. Several years later I was directed to the Pike Place
               Market, where this was literally the very last textile in the shop left to look at. It tells a story of a tiger
               eating the relatives of a wiley little girl, and says "Crunch crunch," I suspect English learned from comic
               books.
                                                                                  Figure 222: Hmong "Crunch Crunch"
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