A Gothy Grey Quilt

Person wrapped in a quilt sitting on a wooden floor next to a wood-burning stove with fire inside.

  • Cotton, naturally dyed with something I can’t recall, adjusted with iron. The back and binding is dyed with madder.

    Hand quilted with multicolored thin sashiko thread. Cotton batting and back.

  • This quilt is a courthouse steps quilt made with contrasting colors of grey and dark red. Light grey stripes included at edges. Madder binding and back.

    Stiched with thin multicolored Olympus Sashiko style thread by hand.

  • This quilt was pieced with a machine and hand quilted. The cotton was hand dyed by the artist.

    This was hand quilted with thin Sashiko style thread in horizontal rows about 1 to 1 1/2 inch apart following the seams. the binding is machine stitched on the front and hand tacked on the back to hide the stitches.

    The strips are sewn in the courthouse steps pattern from strips cut by eye and end cut during construction.

A gothy grey quilt for a gothy grey child. My oldest entered their teen years with a bang of fashion and theater arts. This courthouse steps quilt is made from dyes I forgot to keep in my journal. I know they were both adjusted with iron to created this grey tone. The edging is from madder.

This courthouse steps single block quilt was made in collaboration with my child. These are not colors I would have chosen. I love the process of collaboration. Pushing me to new places that I can’t get to myself.

As a parent I often wonder what my children’s childhood feels like. I hope it feels like I’m leading them, but that its a collaboration. Listening to each other. Providing the structure they need to be creative and free.

It’s worth a try to collaborate with a child. You might just learn something.

Not for sale.

  • In Process

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  • Me

  • Detail

  • Me

  • Not done yet

  • Designing the back

  • Guest bed

  • Thread for hand quilting

  • sashiko style thread

  • basting the quilt

  • Basting the quilt

  • Pin basting

  • Pin basting

  • Pin Basting

  • Sashiko Thread

  • Sashiko Thread

  • Finished

  • Binding

  • Quilting

  • Binding

  • Binding

  • Mitered corners

  • Mitered corners

  • Sashiko thread

  • Back detail

  • Studio

  • with Anja

  • My Gothy Grey Child