Quilt About Light, 2022
Patchwork quilt made with reclaimed textiles from charity shops, previous projects, and from the customer. Embroidered square on the back was stitched by the customer’s maternal grandmother. Hand stitched in perle cotton thread.
“This quilt is about light” are the words that came to mind most often while I worked on this quilt for a beloved friend. Her last name, Lamp, and her love’s last name meaning “torch” sparked an investigation into light-related traditional quilt squares; the pattern we chose is called “Noon and Light”. The nine sections are actually the same pattern, inverting light and dark values for every other one. Scattered squares and triangles of golden yellow make me think of dappled or refracted light. The fabric is a mixture of offcuts from quilts in my own home, thrifted fabric from Stockholm, and fabric she thrifted with her family and mailed across the Atlantic to be included in this patchwork story! She sent me a pillowcase embroidered by her grandmother featuring flowers from her mom’s wedding bouquet, now reinforced, rearranged, and casting the long golden light of generations of women in her family.
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