Julianne Smith

Garden Party

Stream: Reenvisioning

This quilt’s origin story is an ode to my late mother’s love of entertaining, and her desire that I learn to sew, and is made from her copious stash of cotton and linen napkins and old sheets naturally dyed with my kitchen scraps of avocado and onion skins, foraged walnuts and goldenrod, marigolds from my garden, a friend’s dahlias, and indigo from Lady-Farmer, Mary Kingsley. The only out of fibershed material is Hawthorne Supply’s Auriful 100% cotton quilting thread from Italy. All thread for the machine piecing was from my Mom’s inherited notions stash.

Ellen Letourneau

Fiber enthusiast and newbie sewer, quilter, weaver, and garment mender and maker living in the Agricultural Reserve of Montgomery County on a 20 acre farm with my boyfriend and dog Rae.