Stephanie Shore: Working in a Series: a Quilter’s Journey

This lecture will take the audience through my process of making a series of art quilts (now numbering more than 25). I call this series my Fragments series. I begin with my original inspiration and the process of determining what it was about that inspiration that drew me in. Next I describe the initial series of studies I created as I tried to turn that inspiration into something that felt like it was my own. I focus on the evolution of the series and how each piece built on the one before. I present some of the side alleys I took and why I turned back from each of these. Finally, I present the major works that resulted from the series. My goal is to encourage the process of working in a series and the benefits that can derive from this way of working.

Stephanie Shore is a former academic…