note: This is the second of a 3-part blog post about a group of quilts I made for a family in Alaska. Please read Part 1 for the back story.
Part 2 features the quilts I made for Bhree’s two daughters, Emma and Lizzie, and her grandmother, Margaret, who happens to live in my home city of Portland, Oregon. Read more >
Back in the fall, a woman from Alaska named Bhree contacted me and offered up a challenge: to create 7 memorial quilts out of the clothing of 3 family members who had died over the course of a decade, and whose deaths spanned 3 generations. Read more >
“Sam had the wisdom and intelligence of an old soul,” his mother, Donna, recounted to me, and his commitment to protecting the environment shaped his life goals. Read more >
Right from the beginning, there was no question that a memorial quilt honoring the life of Jim Wright should speak to his love of sailing and the sea. Read more >
According to Youssef’s wife, Lindsay, Youssef was impeccably fashionable from “toe to ankle”. I wasn’t completely sure what that meant until I opened up the box of his clothing and saw his fabulous collection of striped socks. Read more >