commission a quilt
I would be honored to make you a quilt!
Here’s how it works:
1) Fill out this form to show interest.
2) I will email you and set up a meeting to discuss:
4) When finished, I will send you multiple pictures and a link to buy the quilt. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to buy it!
Feel free contact me with any questions.
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Here’s how it works:
1) Fill out this form to show interest.
2) I will email you and set up a meeting to discuss:
- size
- color + fabric choice
- design
4) When finished, I will send you multiple pictures and a link to buy the quilt. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to buy it!
Feel free contact me with any questions.
when and why we gift quilts
by Jess Bailey
public library quilts
Birth for the child/for the parent
Adoption
Foster child placement/challenges
IVF, fertility challenges
Miscarriage
Abortion
Hysterectomy
Kid’s first big bed
Grieving a child, a sibling
Grieving a parent, grandparent
Grieving someone you didn’t get to say goodbye to
Grieving chosen family, kin
First period
Bar/Bat mitzvah, & coming of age markers
Coming out
Important moments in a Trans person’s life
Birthdays in hard years
Moving out, moving away
Empty nest quilts
Platonic relationship anniversaries
Partnerships: marriage, queer love, forms of celebration & anniversaries
Separations, breakups
Divorce
Release from prison
Comfort for family of an incarcerated person
Graduation from any point of learning
Finishing a PhD
Quitting a PhD
Getting a degree not at the ‘correct’ time
Loss of a pet
Publishing a book
Career milestones, tenure
Starting a business
Unionizing
Religious solace
Immigration, displacement, refugee, asylum, citizenship
Comfort after any trauma, sexual assault healing
First garden, land stewardship
Sobriety milestones
Finishing a political campaign or community agitation
A dream role obtained
Mobility changes
Disability, Crip time markers
Cancer treatment, during chemo
Chronic Illness
Leaving a shit job
Leaving a path that defined your identity
Leaving a non-inclusive birth family
Leaving an abusive relationship
Setting boundaries with an abusive parent
Moving far away, long distance friendships
For Aunts & uncles
A community fundraiser, mutual aid
Recovering a mother tongue
Moving back home to be a caregiver
Suicide struggles, suicide loss
Therapy, asking for help
Something others don’t see as brave but is for you
Retirement
Menopause
Housewarming/new home/first home
housing stability / loosing housing stability
Someone who couldn’t afford the time or the materials to stay warm in this kind of comfort
Leaving home for a retirement home or care
Diagnosis
hospital stays
TBI
Hospice
In gratitude for community work
For me & its nobodies business
Burial
& QUILTS FOR THE ELDERS WHO MADE US QUILTS
by Jess Bailey
public library quilts
Birth for the child/for the parent
Adoption
Foster child placement/challenges
IVF, fertility challenges
Miscarriage
Abortion
Hysterectomy
Kid’s first big bed
Grieving a child, a sibling
Grieving a parent, grandparent
Grieving someone you didn’t get to say goodbye to
Grieving chosen family, kin
First period
Bar/Bat mitzvah, & coming of age markers
Coming out
Important moments in a Trans person’s life
Birthdays in hard years
Moving out, moving away
Empty nest quilts
Platonic relationship anniversaries
Partnerships: marriage, queer love, forms of celebration & anniversaries
Separations, breakups
Divorce
Release from prison
Comfort for family of an incarcerated person
Graduation from any point of learning
Finishing a PhD
Quitting a PhD
Getting a degree not at the ‘correct’ time
Loss of a pet
Publishing a book
Career milestones, tenure
Starting a business
Unionizing
Religious solace
Immigration, displacement, refugee, asylum, citizenship
Comfort after any trauma, sexual assault healing
First garden, land stewardship
Sobriety milestones
Finishing a political campaign or community agitation
A dream role obtained
Mobility changes
Disability, Crip time markers
Cancer treatment, during chemo
Chronic Illness
Leaving a shit job
Leaving a path that defined your identity
Leaving a non-inclusive birth family
Leaving an abusive relationship
Setting boundaries with an abusive parent
Moving far away, long distance friendships
For Aunts & uncles
A community fundraiser, mutual aid
Recovering a mother tongue
Moving back home to be a caregiver
Suicide struggles, suicide loss
Therapy, asking for help
Something others don’t see as brave but is for you
Retirement
Menopause
Housewarming/new home/first home
housing stability / loosing housing stability
Someone who couldn’t afford the time or the materials to stay warm in this kind of comfort
Leaving home for a retirement home or care
Diagnosis
hospital stays
TBI
Hospice
In gratitude for community work
For me & its nobodies business
Burial
& QUILTS FOR THE ELDERS WHO MADE US QUILTS