COMMA WORKSHOP QUILT DESIGN STUDIO

From 2010-2018, Comma Workshop was my modern quilt design and manufacturing studio based in Boulder, CO. Stitching thousands of words into functional quilts, we brought a fresh perspective to the time-honored tradition of quilting. During that time, Comma quilts were featured in The New York Times, Martha Stewart Whole Living, American Craft, among others. Comma quilts celebrated the intersection of design, art, and craft.

Each quilt had an original story or poem quilted directly into it, in both white thread and a contrasting color thread.  In this way, the 800+ words were a functional part of the quilt holding three layers of fabric together.  Machine-quilted– by hand– our ‘comma cursive’ was original and freehanded, making no two quilts exactly alike.

My original poetry and stories were stitched into each quilt. Themes of life and adventure, and how we create our place in the world, combined with a surreal, dreamlike world.

An excerpt from Workshop Series quilt “Wading Toward Home”:

we will stay for the night.
the moon has reached out for us – we nod in response.
what passes in time {is a delightful mess,} softened, just so, by the moonlight penetrating the dust-soaked window.

it whispers stories as we rest,
wading toward home. molding ourselves into someone else’s dreams.