Block #7

Creator

Tegan Aloysius

Location

Glasgow, Scotland

Creator demographics

35; Nonbinary; White; Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer

Materials and construction

Cotton and linen; All fabric is leftover from dressmaking projects that I made to explore and celebrate my gender presentation. Most of it is second hand/thrifted, with only very occasional new fabric for very special clothes!; Machine sewn, Weaving

Description from maker

I spent a long time thinking about what queer joy means for me, and about the people that this quilt would eventually be going to. The best way I could think to express queer joy through fabric was to use fabric from clothes if made for myself, but I couldn’t find a way to fit that into a ‘traditional’ quilt block, as much as I love them. I wrote a lot of notes trying to find a way of doing this block that felt right to me!; It was important for me to put something together that really felt true to me. I didn’t want to send something that had been sewn just for the sake of it, I really wanted it to be a piece of me; I was originally going to crumb quilt a block and then use that to make pinwheels, but I was playing around with an idea I had for inter-generational, cross country memory quilts and started weaving strips together - if I’d had enough usable strips I would have done the whole block that way!

Visual description

Four four-patch squares surrounded by a grey border. Each square is divided into four smaller squares of fabric in two patterns. The patterns include solids, plaid, and abstract prints. The color palette includes white, blue, pink, yellow, red, and green.

Date

2023

Dimensions

12.5x12.5

Rights

The Euphoria Quilt

Identifier

TEQ-2024-01-7