by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
For years I’ve been drawn to artists who use text in their works. Favorites of mine include Ed Ruscha, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer. I felt drawn to begin creating text for quilts in 2017 following the Women’s March. My daughter encouraged my husband... 
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
The 2022 Dobbs marked a monumental setback for women’s rights, effectively shifting the decision to permit or restrict abortions to individual states and igniting the rollback and impinging of additional rights and reproductive freedoms, including contraception, IVF... 
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
In 2022, in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (and following the Texas Heartbeat Law, September 2021), I began a quilt series, “Women’s Work.” This series of “commentary quilts” seeks to make a subversive statement about the status... 
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2022
I’m excited I’ll be teaching a quilting basics class at SCRAP-SF in September and October. I’m focusing on my favorite block – the Log Cabin Quilt Block. I love this block because of its versatility: it can be traditional, straight and tidy... 
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2022
I’m thrilled that I’ll have two quilts hanging at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this year, my first in this show. Today I learned that these will be traveling as part of the In the American Tradition exhibit to the summer International Quilt... 
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2022
It’s been quite a summer – I’ve had 12 of 14 finished quilts of my recent abortion rights series that have appeared in three different gallery shows in San Francisco. The series incorporates vintage lace and doilies that I have collected from estate... 
