Tag: text

• 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

  2024.07.27

• Indistinguishable

  

  

  Indistinguishable, my first foray into bargello, is a complex-looking work that was actually quite easy to create with simple mathematical and construction techniques. Yet the digital quilting–a complex dance of programming, graphic design, layout, and alignment–is usually assumed to be as easy as pushing a button. Arthur C. Clarke’s famous third law reminds us to revel in the magic of quilts while also explicitly acknowledging the incredible technological prowess required to create them.
  
  56″x82″
  
  Commercial cotton fabric, cotton and polyester batting, machine pieced patchwork, trapunto, custom digital longarm quilting
  
  This quilt appeared in the following exhibitions:

  • Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza 2023
  • International Quilt Festival 2025, Houston (TX)
  • Note: This quilt was juried into AQS Paducah 2025 but was withdrawn due to the organization’s censorship activities. See https://www.saqa.com/about/news/message-saqa-board-color-context-red-exhibition for more information.

  2023.08.12