Quilting and the small print format answer symbolic
and economic issues because my time as a mother raising my child
full-time while working three part-time jobs is obviously fractured.
Given a small pocket of time, I can manage to sew a patch or
layout a pattern, just as women for generations have done before
me. And like them, this series is rooted in my home life where
I still need an outlet for my artistic and aesthetic longings
as I worry, wonder and watch my daughter grow. While I puzzle
through the designs, deciding what is necessary, moving or superfluous;
recognizing secondary designs by what bears repeating, I see
the parallel of raising a child. How can I spread out a world
of warmth and beauty, yet prepare her for the wolves she’s
bound to meet? What delicate lines do I sew to give her the courage
and independence to go to grandmother’s house alone - without
straying from the path?
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