NEW+NEXT Tastemakers of Traditional Home features U&U

Traditional Home kindly features Unconventional & Unexpected in their October 2014 edition. They featured my yo-yo quilt by Laura Otto that pops beautifully. I'm excited that they too see that.

…Now is the moment to chase these bold, graphic quilts by mostly anonymous makers working with patterned fabric scraps.
— Traditional Home

U&U "makes my heart skip a little"

It took me awhile to actually read the essays because I was so mesmerized by the quilts, which are all from Roderick Kiracofe’s collection. This books makes my heart skip a little every time I open it. I love quilts that are ‘off’ and all of them have this quality. There is so much inspiration in here—I can only look at a few quilts at a time. It’s a very special book.
— Amy Karol, Angry Chicken

Thank you to Amy at Angry Chicken for her review of U&U. I loved how she connected the tactility of quilting with the experience of reading the book. She took some lovely photographs of the book, which you can see to the right.

Read her review on Angry Chicken.

U&U quilts “surprisingly improvisational, much like Jazz is to music”

Tim Latimer sat down to work on some new and improvised quilt tops. I loved seeing U&U in the middle of his quilting space, right where I want it to be. See his images below. So many vibrant colors!

I have one of his other books ‘The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950’ and this book completes the story. People often view quilting as nonexistent between the late 40’s and the quilt revival of the 70’s. This book shows that this was not the case. The nearly 150 quilts in this book are surprisingly improvisational, much like Jazz is to music. The notes are the same but they are played differently. It is a beautiful book and I highly recommend it.
— Tim Latimer

Interviewed by Addie Broyles of the Austin American-Statesman

I had a wonderful conversation with Addie Broyles of the Austin American-Statesman. This week she published a beautiful review of Unconventional & Unexpected. I love that she highlights the "irony that most of the unknown quilters might not have ever realized that the pieces they made and that could just as easily have been forgotten might one day actually hang on a wall."

Read the article as a PDF here.

Quilt featured in the Austin American-Statesman article.

Quilt featured in the Austin American-Statesman article.