This 89 inch square quilt was conceived in the days following the events of September 11, 2001. The center of the quilt was composed using pictures, printed on fabric, of people who perished at the site of the World Trade Center.

I created this work of art using traditional quilting techniques. The Lone Star pattern was used because I could manipulate it into looking like an explosion with outward movement. The inner border in shades of gray captures the colors of those days following September 11: the smoke, the dust, the sadness, the colors of a city in mourning. The quilting in the seam line along each side of the small diamonds making up the Lone Star skips the inner border and continues into the outer border. This creates the effect of a chain link fence providing a place for viewers to express their reactions to this event.