Quilts

Reimagining quilting through design

My relationship with quilting has grown from my background in fashion design, textiles and fine art, but I’ve always been interested in approaching it from a contemporary design perspective.

What fascinates me about quilting is the dialogue between its long history and the possibilities of contemporary practice. Traditional quilting carries so much cultural and emotional meaning — patterns, fabrics and techniques can preserve memories, places, family histories and personal stories. Yet the medium itself is incredibly open to reinterpretation.

For me, quilting doesn't have to follow a traditional visual language. I’m interested in taking the fundamental ideas of patchwork, repetition, layering and stitching and looking at them through a more modern design lens. I enjoy working with scale, unexpected colour combinations, graphic shapes, texture and composition, allowing the individual elements to become part of a larger visual narrative.

My background in fashion naturally influences the way I approach this. I think about fabric, proportion, construction and surface in much the same way I would when developing a garment or textile. At the same time, quilting gives me something different — the opportunity to slow down and build an image or an idea layer by layer.

What excites me most is the storytelling potential of quilting.

A quilt can hold fragments of experience — a particular fabric, a colour remembered from childhood, an image, a landscape, an object or a piece of personal history. These fragments can be rearranged and transformed into something new. In that sense, quilting can become a visual language: one that communicates through colour, texture, rhythm, material and association.

I’m interested in that space between craft and contemporary design, between tradition and experimentation. For me, quilting is not simply about making a beautiful object. It is a way of exploring ideas, preserving memories and creating new visual narratives through cloth.

That is what makes this medium so exciting to me — it has a history, but it doesn't have to remain in the past.