My latest series of mini-quilts is a love letter to the cycle the human hand has helped along for thousands of years in the practice of saving seeds for next year’s crop.

I’ve collected seeds and nuts from the native plants and trees in my yard and I’m making a quilted “seed bank.” Each miniature quilt in this series has the seeds preserved in a tulle capsule. These pieces speak to regeneration of life and how nothing in nature really ends but continues in an endless cycle.

I’ve also created a banner of small provisional pieces that will be in the yard through the winter as an open-ended gesture of hope and curiosity. I vaguely thought of these as “prayer flags” but I’m more intrigued by how transformed they will be by the sun, rain, snow, and moonlight.