In 2013 I worked on a strip piecing exercise in a Nancy Crow workshop and was unsure what to do with the final results. That piecework sat in a drawer for nine years until I decided it was time to either toss it or cut it up. With three quick strokes of a rotary cutter, I cut that sample piece into four sections and the quilt finally came to life. I stitched the sections into a contrasting background, adding improv lines and angles to connect the figures and to reach out to the top and bottom edges of the composition. The piece is quilted with a uniform grid as a suggestion of looking through a screen. After months of covid quarantine and social distancing, I was intrigued by the idea of reaching out and making connections – to each other, to the world, and to our past.
