Well Insulated
2018
Cotton fabric and batting · Improvisational piecing · Machine quilting
15.5 × 15.5 inches
Overview
Well Insulated was created in August 2018, when external noise and negativity felt constant and overwhelming. The work imagines protection and stability as something intentionally built through shared space.
At its center, You + Me offers a quiet reassurance: togetherness can create comfort and safety. Layered geometric forms construct a home around that center, while dense dark-gray and black quilting represents outside pressure colliding with the surface, redirected before it can penetrate the space within.
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Dimensions: 15.5 × 15.5 inches
Materials: Cotton fabric; cotton batting
Techniques: Improvisational piecing; machine quilting
Piecing: Improvised construction using layered geometric forms
Quilting: Dense linear quilting in dark gray and black
Backing / Finish: Cotton backing; machine-finished facing
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Well Insulated was created in August of 2018, during a time when negativity felt constant and inescapable. The world outside felt loud, heavy, and overwhelming. This piece came from the need to create a sense of safety and control in the middle of that noise.
At the center of the quilt is You + Me. It represents reassurance — the idea that as long as we have each other, we can remain grounded and comfortable within our shared space. The center is intentionally protected, surrounded by layers that act as both structure and shelter.
The surrounding layers form a barrier, a constructed home or world that we build together. These layers are not meant to shut everything out, but to filter what we allow in. The dark grays and black quilting represent external negativity — pressure, fear, and noise — colliding with the surface and bouncing away rather than penetrating the space within.
This piece is about partnership, protection, and endurance. It reflects the belief that safety is something we actively create, not something we are given. Through shared effort and intention, our well-insulated home becomes a place where we can exist together, unaffected by what presses in from the outside.
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Well Insulated was created for the Curated Quilts Mini Quilt Challenge themed Home. A required color palette informed the limited use of color, while the challenge’s constraints reinforced the layered geometry and the idea of protection as something deliberately constructed.
The piece was not selected for the challenge. It was subsequently published in Quiltfolk, Vol. 10 — Vermont Edition, Spring 2019. Dense dark-gray and black quilting represents external pressure meeting the protective outer layers.
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Publications
Quiltfolk, Vol. 10 — Vermont Edition
Spring 2019