Photo by Aaron Wessling/ portlandartdocumentation.com

A book designer by trade, Laura Shaw has been making quilts since 2018. Using commercial fabrics and recycled materials, her work combines improvisational gestures with a love for the formal grid.

Her quilts have been featured in both judged and juried shows, including QuiltCon, the Houston International Quilt Festival, Quilt=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Art Center, and the SAQA Global Exhibition Color in Context: Red. Her quilt “Your Mother. Your Daughter. Your Sister. Your Grandmother. You.” was acquired by the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Laura lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family. You can find her book designs at laurashawdesign.com

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Hey there QuiltCon crew, say hi 👋 to Joik:02 if you see her, she’s hanging in the Improv group. I’ll be an armchair 🪑visitor again this year. I can’t wait for the online quilt show to begin. Take lots of photos and tag those mak
More QuiltCon memories! This was the second quilt I had hanging in #quiltcon2023 — it was part of the Modern X exhibit. It’s an early scrap bin quilt, the first of a series I’m still working on—made entirely from scraps tha
Adding to the parade of #quiltcon memories with, you guessed it, this quilt YET again. 😂 #quiltcon2023 was the first time “Your Mother. Your Daughter…” was shown and to say I was thrilled is a wild understatement. I apologize t
In an attempt to regain some semblance of normality this past weekend, I did a little work on this quilt. I’m in my new studio space and my muscle memory is all ahoo—sewing machine no longer to the left of my cutting table. Ironing boar