Tag: Modern Quilt

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.

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.