These Stunning Contemporary Quilts are Not Bound by Crafty Conventions

Quilt­ing is some­thing I want to learn in 2020—espe­cial­ly when I see the work of Lore­na Marañon. I’ve been fol­low­ing her work for years. It start­ed with her embroi­dered jew­el­ry that uti­lized a vari­ety of col­ors, mate­ri­als, and shapes. (I have a piece of it!) Lore­na has since moved on from embroi­dered acces­sories but that same exper­i­men­ta­tion is in her con­tem­po­rary quilts. She is not bound to any one shape, for­mat, or fab­ric choic­es. Some of her projects even include poly­mer clay shapes that are stitched to the fab­ric as a way to cre­ate pat­tern and illus­trate con­cepts. “A quilt is no good as a can­vas for paint, but it has just as much agency to tell a story.”