Quilter’s Name: Leta Smith from Fort Collins, Colorado
Name of Pattern: Original Design
Featured Date: 07-24-24
Hi, I’m Leta. My American Sewing Guild chapter issued a challenge: Sew something focused on the theme of “Transitions.” I had recently learned about an early 20th century illustrator of cats named Louis Wain, who spent the last 15 years of his life in a mental hospital. His later works of cats dissolved into kaleidoscopic abstract patterns. I began to think of what a quilters journey might look like if they followed a similar path, and so I made this little art quilt, which I titled “A Quilter’s Descent Into Madness,” which starts off with nice neat blocks and binding at the top and transitions into wonky blocks, then bits and pieces with some binding and exposed batting, and finally nothing but fringed fabric. It was a lot of fun to make!
Leta Smith
President of the Fort Collins Chapter of the American Sewing Guild
Fort Collins, CO
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