An ongoing series of quilts coloured by garden plants.

I began growing dye plants in 2021. In the years since, I have learned how to care for these plants and how to synthesise colour from the different parts they produce–stems, flowers, roots, and leaves. The forms of the plants themselves inspire the patterns I piece together into quilts. I work improvisationally, gradually assembling larger compositions that are not pre-planned, but emerge over time. In this way, and in others, quilting might relate to gardening, which involves intuitive work and response to feedback. Quilting can also relate to the beds within the garden and to the care work of gardening. Repetitive activities like digging, sowing, watering, picking, and clipping turn into stitching, cutting, pinning, sewing, and pressing. Slowly, through the tedious activities of care and craft, a quilt comes together.

These works were made from up-cycled cottons and linens, like used bedsheets and clothing. The fabrics were mostly dyed with garden plants. Using eco-printing techniques, I make saturated prints of flowers and leaves that are appliquéd onto the surfaces.