This represents the last burst of a super productive period before I started my OT program. I had patchwork from workshops with Tara Faughnan in 2017 and Season Evans in 2018 that had been sitting around for a couple of years while I debated how to finish them as individual projects. Eventually I decided they could play together, so I combined them and built onto the composition and this quilt came into its final form.

I called it Dual Enrollment because it combines patchwork from two different classes, and also because it was made during a period when life was very heavy with demands from both school and parenthood.

Sarah Evans quilted a simple grid for me, and I added a grid of handquilting. During the first semester of my OT program at UIC, almost all of our classes were virtual, because of COVID, so I did a lot of the handquilting during zoom lectures.

Dual Enrollment, 61”x84”, completed September 2021