"Mothers & Daughters" by Donna Blalock was featured in the Modern Traditionalism category at QuiltCon 2023.

Artist Statement: "Mothers & Daughters is the first quilt in my Love Letters to My Mother series that incorporates vintage linens (in pristine as well as stained and well-worn conditions), laces, and trims in a myriad of different and non-traditional ways. This first quilt uses a traditional split rail fence block and layout and is overlaid with silk organza pattern pieces to represent and honor the tradition of making a baby's Christening gown from her mothers' wedding dress. The mothers and daughters in my family from my great, great grandmother, Margaret Jackson down to my granddaughter, Lucy Anne, are named and named and spelled out in machine handwriting that deliberately leaves the ending threads loose and unburied. It is quilted with various white, cream, and gold colored threads in the same baby Christening gown pattern shapes that are rough-edge appliquéd on the front."

Techniques Used: Machine Pieced, Hand Applique, Machine Quilted without a Frame (domestic)