Making Do

"Making Do" is an homage to the experience of being a mask-maker in the Spring of 2020. Each triangle in this quilt is an off-cut from a mask I made that year. When pandemic shutdowns led to shortages across the board, including medical grade PPE as well as fabric and notions like elastic, we sewists made do: we experimented and shared patterns, we raided our stashes of beautiful batiks, we cut up thick cotton duvet covers, we made ties out of strips of jersey. When piecing the triangles into squares, I paired fabrics intuitively & improvisationally; the same went for arranging the layout. Slight differences in triangle sizes weren't corrected; I made do. I chose to quilt scattered lines at odd angles and intervals to evoke the sense of unsteadiness and unpredictability that characterized that time for many of us.

The backing fabric is a Schitt’s Creek print; during the Spring of 2020, my husband and I discovered and fell in love with the show. Further, the sentiment of “Ew” seemed appropriate for a quilt that came out of a pandemic!

Completed October 2022

33.25” x 35.75”

Juried into Quiltfest Greenville, SC 2023

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