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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.

Auction: Top of Southern Gap quilt

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This quilt is up for auction as part of The Modern Quilt Guild’s Modern for Modern auction, October 1-15.

Top of Southern Gap

My quilt number is 33 and bidding starts at $100.

My brother planned to build a new home in Buchanan County (our home place ) in the “Southern Gap” community. I researched and found the satellite view of the building lot. It is a reclaimed strip mines. I had just finished an Appliqué Piecing workshop with Shelia Frampton Cooper. And that’s how I made this quilt.

My brother didn’t buy the lot and didn’t build a home, mostly because they were going to build a new high school there and the access road was in front of the lot.

The new school is Southern Gap High School.

I hope you’ll want this quilt and support The Modern Quilt Guild.

45” x 35”

Finished 2021

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