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  • Hand Made

    Surprised to find this hand-pieced teal patchwork top at a reuse store, I tried hand quilting it but quickly discovered that was not my forte. Instead I played to my strengths by layering it beneath black fabric and using custom digital quilting of my own handwriting and cut away text to encourage reflection on what kinds of hand work is valued in the quilt community and beyond.

    30 x 36″

    Found cotton hand-pieced patchwork quilt top, commercial cotton fabric, wool batting, cotton thread, custom digital wholecloth longarm quilting, cut-away reverse applique

    This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

    • Make Your Mark, Floyd Center for the Arts 2025
    • Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza 2025
    • New York State Fair 2025

  • 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    Originally made for the 2024 QuiltCon fabric challenge, the specified color palette reminded me of the vintage cornflower blue Corningware we had in our kitchen when I was a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: