I am a maker of slow, hand-stitched quilts, pieced from worn cloth. Each stitch is an act of slowing way down and wrapping mind and heart around the day.

I am also thrilled to be working on two community quilt projects.

The Prison Quilt Project at Vermont’s Southern State Correctional Facility is a project I am facilitating (with some wonderful BMAC volunteers) as part of my restorative reentry work at Interaction. Incarcerated men are learning to quilt and designing their own quilt on the theme of their experience of incarceration. The quilt will be exhibited in our Brattleboro community and hopefully beyond. This project is funded by the Vermont Council for the Arts and by UVM’s Justice Research Center.

The Community Jeans Flag is a meditation on the meaning of national community and citizenship. The flag will be composed of 195 individual rakusu faces stitched from jeans worn by community members & neighbors. Learn more about the project here.