Final Thoughts

Looking back at 35 years of quilting and even more years creating, my brain and eyes have found this amusing and enlightening. This is what I know:

•  I am restless.

•  Every project I start, I consider myself a beginner. The possibilities lie before me as fresh thoughts and fair game.

•  I love to make mistakes because they put me in front of new challenges to see what I can do next.

•  I can “risk it all” just to see what happens. That fear of cutting up old projects literally gives me a rush. It’s a challenge I am always willing to take.

•  I’m a horrible student because I cannot stand around and watch. I want to play, discover, and search for the answers on my own. My brain never stops looking, searching, and wondering how to make something. So, that said, I feel that when my curiosity is gone, there will be something seriously wrong with me, or it is my end.

•  I said in the early years of my work, that repetition bored me. I needed to find a way to have many directions happening at once. So now, looking back at my work, I can actually see formats and design concepts that I have never been able to get away from. This means repetition was happening, just not sequentially. So, when I now say I am interested in repetition, that irony is not lost.

•  I don’t ever stop working, although calling what I do “work” is just not accurate. It’s joy!

—Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Stitched Together Victoria Findlay Wolfe, 2018, 24˝ × 72˝

Photo by Alan Radom