01/19/2026
Jumping on the 2016 flashback.
(In 2015, I made my first completed quilt, September Dawn, which was juried into an exhibition. That moment was the ignition for everything that followed.):
1. Exploring modern traditional — including a quilting bee where I set the parameters and let the work breathe
2. Self-taught, intuitive, working without a rulebook pushing straight lines.
Title: Transcendent
3. Thinking through making, studying under some masters - my notebooks are important to me to this day.
4. Ignite - Gesture asserting itself - my “sexy curve” refuses to not be heard.
5. Chill-LAX
Straight lines being tested
6. Self-taught - pushing limits while teaching myself how to use a sewing machine
7. Hand binding in a chair —rituals that remain - and colour already insisting on being part of the work - Sneaking it in on the backs before I was ready to put it on the front
8. Work entering the world as I push materials and rules (Silver Lining)
9. Red Square — working inside the rules, even as they began to chafe
10. Community that held it all
In 2016, I was still finding my voice.
The signs were already there — the gesture, the curve, the color waiting to be let loose.
