"Surviving Everything" was made by Jamie Kalvestran in a matter similar to how she creates mixed media art.

When Jamie began making Surviving Everything, she looked at the art she had done in mixed media for inspiration. The common thread she noticed amongst the pieces was her use of a photographic eye. What are photographic eyes? They are free stock images of eyes that Jamie found on the internet and then printed onto fabric for use in her quilts. Not having done improv quilting before, Jamie approached it in this quilt liked mixed media and cut, sewed, and added pieces where she felt they were necessary. Not liking the the first look of the initial finished piece, Jamie cut one of the faces she had made in half and divided it up between the corners of the quilt and mixed the pieces together, which she liked much better.