DescriptionThis was the first quilt I designed on my own. The quilt has a strong tie to memories of my mother, as it was her fabric. She purchased the fabric to make her first full sized quilt but was not able...
DescriptionThis quilt is a narrative of friendship and respect. The quilter chose colors that are warm and earthy. Hexagons within hexagons show balanced inner structures supported by balanced outer structures.
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...
DescriptionMy dad passed in March of 2016 and he longed to go to the beach and get into the water. So, I made a quilt with as many colors of blue as I could.
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...
DescriptionIn my fall of 2006 my daughter Anna Kastner, then a student at Swarthmore College, spent a semester at the University of Ghana in Legon, Ghana. My husband, younger daughter, and I visited her in...
