Sometimes a person’s clothing isn’t the right material for a memorial quilt. Read more >
A Family of Quilts – Part 3
note: This is the third and final segment of a 3-part blog post about a group of quilts I made for a family in Alaska. Please read Parts 1&2 for the back story.
Part 3 features the wall quilts I made for Bhree’s two cousins. Read more >
A Family of Quilts – Part 2
note: This is the second of a 3-part blog post about a group of quilts I made for a family in Alaska. Please read Part 1 for the back story.
Part 2 features the quilts I made for Bhree’s two daughters, Emma and Lizzie, and her grandmother, Margaret, who happens to live in my home city of Portland, Oregon. Read more >
A Family of Quilts – Part 1
Back in the fall, a woman from Alaska named Bhree contacted me and offered up a challenge: to create 7 memorial quilts out of the clothing of 3 family members who had died over the course of a decade, and whose deaths spanned 3 generations. Read more >
A Forest of Remembrance
“Sam had the wisdom and intelligence of an old soul,” his mother, Donna, recounted to me, and his commitment to protecting the environment shaped his life goals. Read more >