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A Magical Jog

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This is my entry for Pick-a-Color Scrappy Challenge for QuiltCon 2027.

A Magical Jog

I store scraps by color, and although my biggest color collection wasn’t green, I knew it would be green. It reminds me of home in the mountains and reminds me to continue to grow.  I try to use my scraps as close to their shape as possible and therefore I end up with lots of straight lines.  Then, the process pushes me to add some curves. Then, I take the path of least resistance to stitch those sections together. Almost every bit of green scrap I owned found its way into in this quilt from wool to cotton to knit.  A friend said the top left “jog” was magical. It feels that way.  

I kept track of the process. You can see how parts remained the same while others didn’t make the final quilt.

I used different weights of thread and stitched mostly in the seams, wanting to celebrate every piece of scrap. It’s 42” x 42”.

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