This quilt was created for a show at Da Vinci Art Alliance held in April 2024 titled “A Shared Table.” The textiles I made for the patchwork front encapsulate nearly all of the dye methods and materials I had learned to work with up to that point, representing four different pre-treatment/mordant methods and 11 different plant and food waste dyes. They were created through immersion dyeing, resist dyeing, block printing with mordant pastes, eco-printing, and bundle dyeing.

The dyes used on the patchwork front are organized according to the seasons when they are harvested or most available. From top to bottom:

• Fall: Black walnut, madder root, maple, and oak leaves

• Winter: avocado skins, yellow and red onion skins (kitchen waste dyes)

• Spring: Marigolds, Cosmos, Coreopsis

• Summer: Scabiosa, Indigo.

The quilt back is pieced from three years of my natural dye tests and one square that was bundle dyed by my daughter Frida when she was two.