Today's featured quilt is a tribute to Arbie Williams (1916-2003), a renowned African American quilter and National Heritage Fellow. Quilt artist Stephanie Jurgensen says: "Despite humble materials and practical purposes, Arbie Williams made undeniably artistic quilts with bold designs. She was struck one day to fashion a quilt from pants leaving them largely intact and fully identifiable as pants."
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Splitting Seams by Stephanie Jurgensen (Boston Modern Quilt Guild)
Inspired by a Sherri Lynn Wood quilt workshop, Stephanie Jurgensen interpreted Arbie Williams' "Britches Quilt" by re-assembling coral colored corduroy pant parts into an abstract layout with glowing edges revealed from dye-resist areas in the seams.
The orange polkadot fabric provides the perfect accent to this modern quilt. Splitting Seams was machine pieced, improvisatonally pieced, and hand and machine quilted. Visible mending with patching was added behind button holes and damaged areas of the corduroy. Stephanie Jurgensen's hand quilting can be seen in the closeup photo below.
For more information on Arbie Williams and her quilts see Arbie Williams: Masters of Traditional Art and Arbie Williams: National Heritage Fellow.
Image credits: Photos of Splitting Seams were taken at the 2025 QuiltCon show in Phoenix, Arizona.
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