A quilt made for Ramona, quilted by her mother, with meaningful fabrics collected over the course of 21 years.  "I had the idea to make a blanket for my daughter when she left for university to keep her warm, figuratively and literally. I couldn't find the time and attention to make such a blanket, and when Hanne started Stories for Inanna, I didn't hesitate for a second. I knew her work and had complete confidence in her. It was a relief to be able to share the work: Hanne made the patchwork and I did the quilting. I sometimes came across little details that Hanne had incorporated and was touched by how much care had gone into the quilt. 
 At the Steiner school, we made the gifts for our children ourselves. The idea behind this is to create a bond with your child through the attention and love that goes into making it. The object then contains “Seelen Wärme” (soul warmth).
 In the depths of winter, I started quilting and the hours I spent in front of the stove were blissful. My daughter thought it was the best gift ever... The blanket is therefore full of “Seelen Wärme”."

A gift for grandmother moving into care, made from family textiles that keep home close. Before she suffered two heart attacks and slipped into a coma, my grandmother lived alone in a big house with a big garden. Gardening and knitting were her favourite pastimes. When she woke up in a care home during Covid, her world had suddenly shrunk. I decided to make a quilt for her from the fabrics I found in her house — pieces she would remember and recognise. I also gathered clothing from across the family: her four children, their partners, seven grandchildren, and even her great-grandchildren. In total, 26 people are woven into this quilt. Now, when she wraps herself in it, she carries not only a part of her old life but also the presence of her family. It is warmth, memory, and belonging stitched together.

A quilt made after returning home after years abroad, carrying fabrics from many places sewn into a map of belonging. I made this quilt after a painful breakup and a move back to Belgium after many years abroad. The fabrics are fragments of that life — worn clothes, textiles from friends, and scraps from artworks I created there. To mark the transition, I asked a friend to organise a ceremony and invited my sisters and close female friends. Together we gathered around themes of grief, wombs, water, and community. From this ritual I carried water on a 1000km pilgrimage, finally releasing it into the ocean. In this way, the quilt became part of a larger cycle — moving from loss into love and belonging. It holds not only fabric, but memory, ritual, and slow transformation.

Three quilts for storytelling The Aunties Collective is a group of artists and cultural workers exploring alternative kinship structures beyond normative family models. For them, I created three large round quilts, each surrounded by ten pillows. These quilts became gathering places — circles where people could sit together for storytelling, and for stitching a collective blanket in which every fabric square represented another story of kinship. The quilts are not only functional objects but living spaces for connection, holding the texture of many voices and relationships woven together.