Quilting Meets Storytelling with Kerry Larkin
Hailing from a family of quilt-makers, seamstresses, and upholsterers, Kerry Larkin is continuing the tradition with a fresh perspective as the founder of Comma Workshop.
What You'll Get
Create an Heirloom - We’ll work closely together to create the perfect heirloom quilt for you or someone you love. Weddings, anniversaries, graduations… there are endless occasions and endless options for one-of-a-kind quilts.
Tell Your Story - Each piece you create will tell a story, selected by you and celebrated in the fabric.
Imagine your daughter and son-in-law’s wedding vows stitched into a Comma Workshop quilt… Or, your favorite childhood memories stitched into an anniversary quilt for your parents. A dear friend that is also an aspiring writer? Let’s stitch her words into a custom quilt!
Create a Custom Throw-Size Quilt with Kerry Larkin and Becky Joyce
Description - You’ll come to our studio in Lyons and learn about the quilting process, the quilting machines and the tools we use. Together we’ll design the perfect throw quilt for you. You bring your special poem, memories, wedding vows etc., and together we’ll draw the pattern for your quilt. We’ll sew some sample swatches, and Becky Joyce, of Mountain Joy Quilts in Rollinsville, will finish the quilting process.
If you choose, we will visit her studio, nestled in the mountains above Rollinsville, and see your design being quilted. She’ll show you the different quilting processes on a long-arm quilting machine.
After the quilting is finished, we’ll show you how to hand stitch the binding onto the quilt and make a special label.
Cost - $1,175 for a custom throw size quilt measuring 60”x65”. Price may vary depending on the chosen design.
About Kerry Larkin
Kerry Larkin started Comma Workshop in 2010. In 2006, Kerry installed an art piece at the SAAW gallery in Philadelphia that explored fabric, typography, and storytelling. Wanting to explore this more, she went back to her roots and embraced quilting. From a family of quilt-makers, seamstresses, and upholsterers, Kerry is continuing the tradition with a fresh perspective.
Kerry’s past includes a degree in architecture from Penn State; a two year stint at Auburn University’s famed Rural Studio (enough time to fall in love with the deep south); and several years teaching industrial design to fabulous students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. More importantly though, she’s sheared sheep, opened a yoga studio in rural Alabama, and dragged an 80-foot yellow arrow across the country.
Preferring nature to the fast life of the big city, Kerry now lives in Boulder, Colorado, sews daily and dreams of owning a dog named Walt Whitman.
“decidedly we will stay for the night.
the moon has reached out for us – we nod in response.
what passes in time {is a delightful mess,} softened, just so, by the moonlight penetrating the dust-soaked window.
it whispers stories as we rest,
wading toward home. molding ourselves into someone else’s dreams.”