The Grenfell quilt that’s eight years in the making

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Tuesday Greenidge is a regular at North Kensington Library, where you’ll often find her sewing at its large communal desk. When we meet in February, she is wearing a khaki raincoat made, not coincidentally, from Grenfell cloth. Greenidge, a textile artist, has lived in this west London neighbourhood for more than 30 years. For the past eight, she has been working on…