Photo by Aaron Wessling/ portlandartdocumentation.com

About the quiltmaker

Laura Shaw has been making quilts since 2018.

Her work has been in both judged and juried shows, from a SAQA global exhibition to QuiltCon to Quilts=Art=Quilts in the Schweinfurth Gallery in Auburn, New York.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

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2024 was a weird quilting year—not a lot of quilts completed and many false starts, including a quilt I regret not making (bottom row center) that it’s now too late to make because I’ve long since chopped up the fabric for other thi
Here are my three ‘no thank yous’ from QC this year. They represent most of my work in 2024. (Swipe 👉 for full views) It was a busy year with LIFE stuff so not as much sewing as I would have liked. Here’s to more quilting in 2025
Hopping onto IG to tell you that this quilt is going to Quilt Con 2025, which is happy news indeed! ✨ And ALSO to say that it was a Quilt Con reject last year, so please try again! It happens a lot, not getting in one year, but getting the nod the n
Quilters! Check out this lovely short documentary from the @latimes about three amazing quilters. My old friend @quilt.studies told me about it. My only quibble is they don’t give their names until the end. Brenda Bailey @farmandfolk @nava