Materials: A silky (polyester?) fabric that I inherited from a quilter, cotton thread, hand embroidered and hand quilted, stretched on a wooden frame.

Year Completed: 2023

Dimensions: 6 x 6 x .75”

I began embroidering this piece while my mom drove us to visit my 92-year old grandma Mimi, who inspired my quilt, Mimi, Mimi, Mimi. I shared about her in a recent conversation that you can watch on YouTube.

Mimi is a huge reason why I’m a quilter, and she began to have dementia just as I got serious about quilting. Ten years later, I visited her while making this quilt, and she asked, “I made quilts? Imagine that.” While I began this piece intuitively, I believe it reveals something beautiful about what she’s passed on to me, and it’s quilted with a subtle bridge.

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