DescriptionThis is the second soccer quilt my mother made for me. She made it in May of 2015 when I told her I had been selected as the soccer captain at Connecticut College. Mother gave it to me in August of...
DescriptionDuring a trip to Accra, Ghana during the summer of 2010 I met Bernice Frimpong Ankrah, a wonderful Ghanaian woman who operated a batik clothing and bag business and who taught me how to foundation...
DescriptionIn 2010 my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer and in early 2011 I began commuting regularly to Florida to assist him. This quilt began as a project to while away the evening hours I spent in...
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the notion of justice within the courts. The Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Gye Nyame which is the focal point of this quilt, means “except for God,” Gye Nyame is at the center...
DescriptionThis quilt is dedicated to my beloved grandmother Isabella Josephine (Carey) Grunderway, nee Marsh (1910-2000). The gospel song “Oh Happy Day” was one of Nana’s favorites, and thus the name of...
DescriptionThis was the very first quilt I made. I hand dyed the batiks during a batik workshop conducted by Kokroko in Kumasi, Ghana in July 2010. My sister Tarsha-Nicole Taylor of Tewksbury, MA helped me...
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the book Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of American Universities by Craig Steven Wyler. As a young woman growing up in Medford, Massachusetts, I...
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the following articles: Bassett, Thomas J. Slim pickings: fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum 41.1 (2010): 44-55. Day, Elizabeth. The desperate plight of Africa’s...
DescriptionThese pillows began as a whole cloth quilt endeavor, but the Matelassé fabric was too heavy or me to maneuver so I created two toss pillows.
