About Improvisational Quilts: I saw a retrospective of the maker/quilter Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAMFA in Berkeley, CA and fell in love. All of her work spoke to me. It was one of the first times outside of the quilts of Gee's Bend that I saw and felt the energy of someone who just needed to make and didn’t abide by any rules. I began quilting without patterns and instead made what felt right..