Since I reconnected with my sewing practice in 2020, I have generated about 70 pounds of off-cuts from my projects. I have been collecting these off-cuts for five years, along with ephemera from friends, family, and lovers.

pucker bunch features quilted garments from these scraps, with a few supplemental pieced garments that fill out the collection and its themes. To craft the garments, I lay the scraps on top of garments that are too damaged to be swapped or sold and stitch them down, creating one-of-a-kind quilted, wearable textiles.

The process itself allows me to slow down, to connect with my body and intuition in a period of my life that has felt swallowingly cerebral. Pseudo-archival in nature, the pieces are a mix between quilt and scrapbook: each material contains memories of every hand that touched them before.

The garments mimic the style of my own closely-held 'junk' journals: journals that have been my companions since I learned to book bind with my friend Selin (pictured in the gallery) in 2022.