Kristina Snook

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When working on a quilted piece, there are two very distinct stages. First piecing. Most of the time I work from a space of letting the colors and texture guide my creating. The tradition of using and reusing every scrap of material speaks to me. The idea of embellishing and making something beautiful out of worn, used-up, torn, forgotten or grown-out-of material is central to my drive to quilt. Most of my works begin with the starting point of reusing fabric scraps from previous quilt projects. In a sense there is a common fabric that continues from each successive quilt. The second part of quilting is stitching. The quilting stitch is functional in that it holds the layers together, but it also becomes embellishing line extensions from shape and color. I think of my stitching in terms of an overlying map, sometimes roots or in some pieces, mycorrhizae.