Family Scraps
I started out learning to sew with scraps. My Lita and I would piece together fabrics for all sorts of things. When I started making quilts in my early 20's I preferred to use scraps and follow the free-flowing style of story quilts . When I was in Grad school I stumbled on the Quilts of Gee's Bend , and was drawn to the way the quilt's had stories, without images. It was a product of time manifested as useful object. The scraps of clothes and other recycled material used in the blankets were tangible moments that had passed in each quilt maker's life. I absolutely loved this idea. It encompases the ideals of "reuse" on so many different levels. Over the years I've made many small scrap objects, blankets and even a few skirts, but since moving to our new home, I haven't taken on a new large quilt. It was a meditative process of pulling out boxes of scraps, pressing and trimming. I decided to make a quilt that would fit our k...
