Rain Sticks

Marlene Marks

Machine pieced and quilted. Colorful “made” fabric is improvisationally pieced from scraps, cut into curvey strips and inserted onto a black ground.  

Hue Don’t Know Me

Marlene Marks

Machine pieced and quilted. An exploration of color and value.  Matchstick quilting in multiple thread colors adds density and dimension.   

Good Friends

Marlene Marks

Machine pieced. Long-arm quilted by Becky Chandler. This quilt was a round robin-style collaboration between @claudiakimbrough and myself. We met on Instagram in 2018, became good friends, and spent part ofour pandemic year mailing quilt tops back and forth between Chicago and Durham,NC!

Flow, Pink

Marlene Marks

Machine pieced. Long-arm quilted by Sarah Evans. A “what if…?” piece of improvisational play. I was gifted a bundle of Japan-themed fabric and determined to use every bit of it. Creating this giant jigsaw puzzle of patchwork put me in a sustained state of flow.