Sandra G. Lee

My quilting adventure began in traditional styles learned from my grandmothers. Early on, I began to evolve my own style. For many years, quilted art clothing was my medium. Today, art quilts hold my fancy. I draw inspiration from spiritual legacies and cosmologies. Currently, I am translating techniques for manipulating fabric and jewelry construction into quilts. I am drawn to balancing perceived opposites in my work - “soft” and “hard”. “light” and “dark”, “fixed” and “fluid”, “serious” and “whimsical”. Contact Sandra;

“Ecstatic Wisdom”

1st place, “Twirls, Swirls, and Pearls”
American Sewing Expo, Novi, Michigan
September 2007

Inspired by the spiral as a symbol of change, transformation, and creativity. The Sufi dervishes twirl into an ecstatic union with the divine, leading them to “pearls of wisdom”. Incorporating the twirling spiral lifts the traditionally static state of a quilt into a dynamic process of movement. The varying techniques are symbolic of the many paths of creation and transforming power.

Techniques: Painted & stamped fabric and Tyvec, foiled velvet, wrapped and coiled silver wire, woven tyvec, heated tyvec, swirled fabric, fantasy fabric, freshwater and faux pearl embellishment and corregated fabric.



“All Hallow’s Eve”

A celebration of light and dark commemorating
the age-old theme of embracing life and death - the intersection of what has been and what will be.


“Pandamonium in a Bamboo Garden”

2006 Hoffman Challenge
3rd place, Accessories