Tag: wholecloth

• 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

• 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

  2024.03.08

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  Originally made for the 2024 QuiltCon fabric challenge, the specified color palette reminded me of the vintage cornflower blue Corningware we had in our kitchen when I was a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

  • Smoky Mountain Quilt Show 2024
  • New York State Fair 2024
    • 1st Place Modern Quilts
  • Note: This quilt was juried into AQS Branson 2025 and AQS Daytona Beach 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.

  2023.10.30

• What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eye

  

  

  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

  2021.06.28