Two different creative ideas collided in this project. The first idea came when I was chatting with my cousin Sonya about different summer art-club ideas. She really wanted to play around with a resist dye technique and needed to try it out herself before she attempted it with a group of children. The second thing …
When a couple at church had a very complicated pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth, a friend asked me if I would help make a memorial baby blanket for them. More than that, she asked if I would help her organize a community quilting event that would allow others to participate. I agreed of course. …
My brother and his wife welcomed their 7th bundle of joy into the world in April! Poppy Pascale was the inspiration for this little blanket. Her name lives on both sides of the quilt - flowers for the Poppy part and the cross for the Pascale part. (The root of the name is Latin for …
Some projects are difficult to date. They are such a long journey. This quilt is technically my first art quilt because I started it first. Autobiography began much later but it happened much faster, so it crossed that finish line first and got posted first. Still, the evolution of this quilt was the broader context …
A friend from church had a baby a few months before COVID hit. Then lockdown happened and I had lots of time to make a baby blanket. I couldn't go out and buy fabric, so I texted her some color palette options from my stash and she chose this blue and gold shweshwe set. I …
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