Letting Go, Hanging On
2024 | 72"x 48"
Downsizing. Moving to a different state after 65 years in California. Collecting. Family ties. Dead pets. So many, many friends. So many, many memories.
I gathered all my beloved collected/saved/made/found/stored trinkets and heirlooms and sewed them together in one place. This quilt will live in my new studio and I can continue to hang on while letting go.
Greatly inspired by Rosie Lee Tompkins’ Untitled quilt that she made as an homage to her new home in California. She sewed together her newly collected trinkets. I just did my homage quilt in reverse.
(Vintage ribbons, trims, handmade doll, doll clothes, gum wrapper chain, crocheted animals, shoelace, fabrics designed by me, fabrics found while shopping with friends, vintage quilt shard, grandma’s linen napkins, husband’s silk screen art, beloved dog sweater, preemie baby onesie. Whole cloth cotton backing with hand appliqué and hand embroidery. Hand quilted with perle cotton floss.)
