My fairy-obsessed daughter claimed this quilt as her own while I was working on it. Lately, she names all of her stuffies and dolls "Pixie ___", so it felt fitting to title this one The Pixie Quilt. This was my first time designing a nine-patch quilt with the blocks oriented "on point," and I didn’t follow a pattern. There were definitely some hurdles to cross and mistakes to rework while figuring out the layout. Needless to say, a lot of stitches were ripped in the making of this quilt top. It's also the largest quilt that I've hand-quilted to date. I loved all the hours of hand stitching late into my nights, and I’m not sure I can ever return to machine quilting.

The cotton and linen fabrics are all secondhand, gifted, or inherited and were dyed in early 2025 with dyes grown and collected in 2024. The dyes include: madder root, weld, indigo, avocado, goldenrod, marigold, coreopsis, black knight scabiosa, black walnut, maple leaf, and acorn.