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...project's organizers say that their biggest concerns at the moment are generating awareness about the ribbon and coaxing people to design segments. Jones and Janet L. Irons, the two state coordinators for Massachusetts, said that they have been spreading their message by organizing "sewins" and setting up exhibits of the finished segments across the state...
...next stage of the ribbon project will start on Memorial Day, when, Irons said, the state's segments will be pieced together and displayed in preparation for the trip to Washington. Then, Irons and Jones will arrange for the banner's transportation and for volunteers who will hold up the Massachusetts segment during the wrapping ceremony...
Although the ribbon's organizers emphasize that anybody may make a segment, Jones said that the movement is largely composed of and participated in by women...
According to the Ribbon Project newsletter, "Participants may applique, batik, embroider, hook, needlepoint, paint, quilt, silk-screen, tie-die, weave, reproduce photographs, use iron-on fabric paints...to tell this nation that we love the earth and its people...
...segments must be made of strong cloth and must be 24 inches high and 40 inches long in order to be stitched together, said Ellen Sarkisian, a teaching consultant at the Danforth Center who is organizing the ribbon movement at Harvard...