I began quilting in my early twenties.

I was living in San Francisco in the Haight and had a notion to make my nephew a quilt. By cutting up old dresses and scraps lying around I fashioned the first quilt. I had no idea what I was doing.

Over time, a quilt was always on my mind, in design, and sewn.

There are probably a few hundred quilts out there that I either helped develop or made individually.

Every quilt teaches me something new.

The photographs here are not polished.
They just show my efforts.

-Joyce Roby
Aptos, CA
Spring, 2021