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  • Anonymous Was A Woman

    I bought this pink patchwork top at a reuse store with the intention of making it into a coat. But when I got it home, I couldn’t bear to cut it up. Instead I layered it beneath a length of gray wholecloth wideback fabric and used digital longarm quilting motifs from Karlee Porter and cut away reverse applique text to encourage us all to reflect on who gets credit for creating art in the quilt community and beyond.

    76″ x 90″

    Found vintage patchwork quilt top, commercial cotton fabrics, cotton batting, polyester thread, wholecloth custom digital quilting, reverse applique

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

    • QuiltFest Greenville 2024
    • Genesee Valley Quilt Fest 2024
    • Smoky Mountain Quilt Show 2024
      • 2nd Place, Large Appliquéd and/or Mixed Techniques – Team
    • Text on Textiles exhibit, International Quilt Festival (Houston) 2024
    • New York State Fair 2025
      • 4th Place, Mixed Techniques

  • Pyrex Eyes

    Originally made for the 2024 QuiltCon fabric challenge, the specified color palette reminded me of the vintage cornflower blue Corningware we had in our kitchen when I was a child. Perusing the Pyrex Pattern Library online database from the Corning Museum of Glass, the 1950 Pyrex pattern “Eyes” specifically caught my attention because of the color synchronicity. Using the database images as inspiration, I digitized a quilting pattern and used raw edge reverse applique to create pops of color and contrast rough and smooth in this double-sided, reversible quilt.

    71″ x 82″

    Windham Artisan doubleshot cotton; cotton batting, Aurifil cotton thread, wholecloth custom digital longarm quilting, reverse raw edge applique

    This quilt is available for purchase

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

  • HB 1557

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    HB1557 (named for the infamous Florida “Don’t Say Gay” bill) is made from traditional swap blocks from quilters in a traditionally conservative district. Blocks are arranged in a modern colorway and quilted to say “gay” in myriad sizes, fonts, and styles, including my own handwriting.

    38.5″x56.5″

    Commercial cotton batiks, wool batting, machine pieced patchwork block from community members, custom computerized longarm quilting

    This quilt is available for purchase

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

    • Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2023
    • Broward Quilt Expo 2023
    • International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival 2023
    • Big Gay Art Show 2023, Sedona Arts Center 2023
      • First Place/Best in Show award

  • Easy As ASL

    In summer 2020, I was inspired to take up embroidery again. I was inspired by sets of things, such as alphabets, that would make good quilt squares. Each of these letters was hand-embroidered by me and machine pieced into the quilt. By the time this work was completed, it was no longer 2020! I decided to capture the time span of work in the quilting.

    50″ x 56″

    Commercial cotton fabric; cotton batting, DMC embroidery floss, machine pieced patchwork, hand embroidery, custom hand-guided longarm quilting

    This quilt is available for purchase

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

    • Genesee Valley Quilt Fest 2022
    • Tompkins County Quilt Show 2022
    • Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza 2022
    • Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2023
    • Schweinfurth Member Art Show 2023

  • Stars of Social Media

    This quilt draws on traditional conventions of redwork to present the most frequented online media sites in the US during 2020, juxtaposing the data-driven online world with slow textile traditions.

    52″ x 52″

    Commercial cotton fabric, cotton thread, cotton batting, embroidery floss, U.S. social media usage data, machine-pieced patchwork, hand embroidery, hand-guided longarm quilting

    This quilt is available for purchase

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

    • Uncommon Threads, Carlisle Learning Arts Center 2022
    • Atlanta Quilt Festival 2023

  • What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eye

    What Is Essential

    This wholecloth panel quilt uses traditional quilting techniques like trapunto–often considered feminine skills– to contrast the typically masculine professions lauded in American culture and to surface invisiblized professions that are consistently ignored, under-resourced, and scorned, yet arguably more essential to a functional society.

    38.5″x32.5″

    Commercial cotton panel, cotton batting, cording, cotton thread, trapunto, custom hand-guided longarm quilting

    View a viral TikTok video about this quilt made by an AQS Des Moines attendee: https://www.tiktok.com/@glamourviking/video/7144426454355381550

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

    • Great Wisconsin Quilt Show 2021
    • Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center 2021
    • AQS Des Moines 2022
    • Quilts Unlimited 2022
    • New York State Fair 2023