Grief Quilts | 2023 - Present

What began as a craft to make for new life in this world became a pathway for processing grief. I find this duality– celebrating life and processing death– in the durable softness of creating quilts. The process of making bright large quilts is a balm: slowly, I create something from pieces of nothing, and work as large as the piece requires, unconstrained by a canvas dimension. Working with the more saturated and vibrant colors of fabric grounds me in the present and on what is important and tender. In a world becoming more complicated and difficult to bear, not less, I follow where the sadness and joy lead.

A seventy seven inch square quilt top photographed flat on the ground. The pattern is an ocean waves pattern surrounded by a border of nine patch squares. The colors of the “waves” are dark blues in the top left, towards pinks and lavender in the bottom right. The outside border is made of bright colors pops and olive greens. The quilt is machine quilted with undulating waves.

A seventy inch square medallion quilt with a blue fade half square triangle motif in the center, and borders of brightly colored nine patch pieces, and checkers in a variety of sizes in blues.

A medallion quilt with turquoises and tones of pinks, oranges and golds. Bold triangle are the centerpiece, surrounded by a border of nine patch squares, diagonal striped piecing, dark checkers, and 1 inch square checkered in a color gradient on the outer border. The piece is hand stitched which gives it a texture.