2026 // 75 by 75 inches

Ripped, tucked, machine pieced, hand-tied

Marcia Derse cotton, wool batting, wool yarn

Artist Statement

What happens to your fabric stash after you die? I’m often astonished by the size of people’s fabric collections—far more than can ever be used in a lifetime. How much of it will end up in landfill?

The fabrics in this quilt all came from a stranger’s collection, gifted to me by a friend who knew I love Marcia Derse prints. I challenged myself to try to use it all in a single quilt, determined to not let them malinger in my own stash. The result is a riot of printed and tactile texture, with a grid of small, raised tucks distorting the surface, finished with 625 hand-tied knots in bright pink and yellow yarn.