Eggs

Babies, eggs of all kinds, feathers, flowers, families....!

Quilt 4 of 4.

This project was supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council which receives funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

quiltstravaganza- girl art to the max

This is my first photo quilt. I made it as a documentary tribute to Colleton County, South Carolina. It was made with funding from the South Carolina Arts Commission and with an Alternate Roots Grant. My husband, Bill Storz helped to do the massive amounts of technical work that creating this quilt involved. I worked on it through two pregnancies.
When I moved from urban New England to the rural South Carolina Low Country in 1991 (to begin life as a schoolteacher) I felt that I was in another world. I began to explore my new home with my camera in hand. I printed these images on fabric and then made a quilt. This work was completed in 1998. It is 100" x 100".

warm and fuzzy

The first kid's quilt that I made was for Sammy. She was one and we had just moved to Colorado. I always go running in the early morning before anyone wakes up. That didn't work with Sammy though. She'd wake up if I wasn't there. I had to take her with me. Even in the frigid winter. So I made her a very warm quilt. Wool blanket on the inside and backed with fleece. It had many personal images printed either with cyanotype or van dyke brown.
Well now I live in a colder place and also have lucy. So I made another warm quilt. This one has all kinds of pictures- her favorite doll, me w/ my mother and grandmother, her sonogram, a snakeskin, her favorite flowers, etc. I also used pieces of the sling I carried her in and the maternity dress I wore when I was pregnant.