Handmade is my first quilt. The squares were hand-stitched, and I used my sewing machine to construct the rest of the quilt.

Hands hold a place of significance in lesbian and sapphic culture. They maintain a duality of softness and erotics unique to the community, represented over and over in lesbian visual art, films, and literature. Hands can be strong and soft, tools and things of beauty, messengers and readers, all at the same time. In Handmade, I connect this significance to queer and feminist histories of fiber art, specifically through the history of quilting.