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The Gripe Session

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This is THE GRIPE SESSION.

A quilt I made with my friends, Maggie Schubert and Kat Van Bourgondien. We made it for the Modern Quilt Guild’s Quiltcon fabric challenge.

55” x 55”

The fabric is Artisan Cotton by Windham Fabrics. It wasn’t selected for the show, and I’m sad about that, but we’re exhibiting it at our guild’s show, Make Mine Modern, at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, in Newport News, Virginia February 26-March 1, 2026.

Our artist statement:

The Gripe Session began as banter among friends on one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong.  “Bang Head Here” became both instruction and release—stitched again and again. It’s a vent and a Valentine to persistence: proof that when all you can do is bang your head, you might as well make it soft.

Remember 2020?

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I made this quilt in 2020 for The Modern Quilt Guild’s Quiltcon Together Wedge challenge.

I haven’t shared this quilt, Make Wedge Love, before now. Probably because I didn’t think it was that successful, but looking at it now I feel 2020 in it. I see those COVID-19 spiky things in the medical illustrations. Plus the virus curves. There’s a feeling of disjointed fun— how could that be? And, where did I get that purple? It feels like a bad circus poster. That is how I feel about 2020.

I hand quilted in the ditch. I probably did that because of the deadline and a desire to just finish it. It wasn’t selected for the show.

41” x 45

See my quilt at Virginia Quilt Museum

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My quilt, Light Coming Home, is on display at The Virginia Quilt Museum through December 20, 2025.

My quilt is part of an exhibit titled MODern Quilting: A selection of quilts from Quiltcon Shows.

Light Coming Home was part of Quiltcon 2023.

I started this quilt the week of the Eastern Kentucky floods. I grew up across the border in Southwest Virginia. The images of the debris entangled against the bridges and houses. The lives lost. I processed this through making this quilt. Lots of curves and sharp lines. 

When I began, I thought I would use more of the rust fabric, but it felt important to use the vanilla fabric as a dominant background with the black fabric and thread outlining each piece. Mildred Haun’s short story, Darkness Coming Deep, inspired the name of this quilt. It is the story of the death of a child. I wanted to express the opposite of that pain, Light Coming Home. This quilt represents lightness coming to me through the making of this piece.