The Pattern Nobody Remembered

• Ages 4–9
• 20 pages
• Hardcover · 11 × 8.5 in
• By Lamont Kirton

One morning, the making stops. Hands forget how to braid, how to quilt, how to sew — and something called The Dim is swallowing every pattern that nobody makes anymore. So Emeka follows her own glowing indigo cloth all the way to a porch in Gee’s Bend, Alabama — where a mother, a needle, and a quilt sewn from old work clothes teach her that some things can only be learned hand to hand.

A story about making, memory, and learning hand to hand.