UTILITY QUILTS
All of my larger quilts are utility quilts. I can’t see the point of making a big quilt that is too precious to be used as a quilt. Surely, that’s the only reason I’m not an award-winning quilter.
WALL QUILTS
I never aspired to make an art quilt. But in 2009, in a desperate attempt to make friends with the cool kids, I joined Paradise Textile Artists and began making quilts too small to be useful. Mostly they lie imprisoned without food, water, or visitors, over-crowded in a cedar chest my dad made for my mom. Each month, unless laziness wins, I drag out the quilt-of-the-month to hang in a prominent spot in a dark hallway.
SMARTASS PRAYER QUILTS
In 2017, I read two books back-to-back that changed the way I view our world: Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History and Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything. Since then, I have made many of what I call Smartass Prayer quilts, which call upon higher powers to solve problems associated with climate change, guns, women’s personal freedom, and plantar fasciitis. Alas, all prayers remain unanswered.