BLAIR STOCKER
Blair Stocker is a quiltmaker, embroiderer, educator, and author. After a career in apparel design for brands such as Marithé & François Girbaud and Nautica, she turned her focus to quilts. Her modern scrappy quilts are colorful, visual narratives built from saved textiles and the memories they hold. Color, pattern, and improvisation meet structure. They transform personal history into contemporary patchwork that carries both story and beauty. She has also revived Chicken Scratch embroidery, a hand-stitching technique popularized during the Depression era that layers delicate, lace-like patterns onto gingham fabric. She has brought this vintage technique into her quilting practice.
Find her online at Wise Craft Handmade.
Turquoise Trail quilt, made from sample swatches of men’s overcoats from the 1950’s.
Hammerhead quilt- Made from Liberty of London Tana Lawn cottons and manipulated by a color removal process.
Estrela quilt is a Block of the Month project Blair teaches online.
Outside of Blair’s studio