ESSAYS
Awake Under the Quilt: Menopause, Adolescence, and the Work of Cloth
Thinking Through Quilts: Tending the threads that pull me forward
Queens Quilt Part 1: How the Wise Woman of this quilt revealed her flaws and gave me the faith to teach again.
Straight Enough: How to Sew Straight Seams (and Why It’s Harder Than It Looks)
The Raw and the Stitched: The Journey from Inspiration to Fabric and Thread: Designing the Antigone Quilt
The Quilt and the Stain: Stains and the Strange Doctrine of Original Sin
Faith in the Language of the Quilt: On Quilting, Rigidity, and the Miracles That Take Shape
The Unnatural Dyer: What drives us to create quilts, colors, and culture?
On the Mend: How our wounds lead to the poetry of the quilt
Quilt Critique: How to write about quilts
The Quilt and the Pigeon: Quilt in the home and the museum
A Hysterical Quilter: The Birth of the Scandinavian Ohio Star Quilt
The Saturated Quilt: Quilting for a sense of play, wonder, and sensuality
Dirty Quilts: The importance of working dirty
Collaboration and the Spirit Filled quilt: Contemplation on the Moth Eaten Quilt
Quilt Witch: Witchy textile stories for Halloween
Shaken up, Unraveled, In pieces: finding my way with this complex colorway in the New York beauty quilt
Drawing Color Into the World: How talking helped me open up to a world of color
Hands: What We Do with Them and Why
Quilt Block/Creative Blocks: The work of the quilt is the block
Keep Quilting and No One Explodes: The art of finishing a quilt - one block at a time
The Quilt on the Couch: Listening to the structures of our quilts and our lives
The Joy of of the Material: Stained, split, and spiritual quilting
Patchwork and Piecing: The neurotic quilt top
Hiccups, Jokes, and Holy Quilts: A new perspective on the tradition of adding intentional imperfections
Hello Haunted Quilt: My first lost quilt
Ghost Quilt: A quilty Halloween reflection
The Quilting Point: The link between quilting and psychoanalysis
The Frivolity of a Quilt: on the meaning of quilting every day