“Quilt Squares” is an ongoing series of paintings based on quilts made by my grandma and her grandma. The specific quilts they are known as crazy or crumb quilts: a quilt made of small scrap fabric pieced together in blocks. Laura Baumgartner (my great-great grandmother) started the process of these quilts by collecting fabric scraps from the various sewing projects she did for her family on their farm in rural Illinois. She then sewed these scraps in blocks known as quilt squares. Years later, my grandmother, Rowene Linden, restarted her grandmother’s project by taking these squares and making them into three crazy quilts.