See my quilt at Virginia Quilt Museum

November 24, 2025November 22, 20251 Comment

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.

Auction: Top of Southern Gap quilt

October 1, 2025September 29, 2025Leave a comment

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

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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Member Spotlight: Wanda Ann Dotson | Central Virginia Modern Quilt Guild

March 2, 2023Leave a comment

Name: Wanda Ann Dotson Member of CVAMQG since: 2015 How long have you been quilting? Twenty-nine years What is your favorite quilting tool? ? I love hand quilting, and I couldn’t quilt without my metal thimble. What are your favorite fabric lines and substrates? Do you prefer prints or solids? I love solids, and I have recently…
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