What objects or possessions in our lives have value? What makes them valuable to us? How do we discern an item's value in relationship to our values?

Quilting is an ancestral practice for me. My great-grandmother, Kathleen Cawthorne, was an accomplished quilter. We called her Nanny Cawthorne. Our time on this earth only briefly overlapped, so I did not get to know her well. I stumbled across a stack of about 30 hand-stitched Dresden plates that Nanny had started before she passed, tucked away in a drawer in my grandparent's house. These were pieces she started, pieces of her, tangible representations of her life force that persist even after her physical body has left this earth, sitting untouched and unvalued. It became the essence of this work to collaborate with my ancestors and breathe new life into otherwise discarded or forgotten objects. In addition to my great-grandmother's plates, all other fabrics are repurposed — old bedding, a stained shirt, a torn bandana, or second-hand fabrics that I hand-dyed with grown or foraged plants.