Email: Linda Frost

I have lived in Kansas my entire life, and I have resided in Lawrence for the last 30 years.  My work has covered virtually the entire spectrum of quilting. I started many years ago making utilitarian quilts from scraps left over from clothing construction.  Fifteen years ago, I began creating quilts simply for the joy of working with color and fabric.  My quilts became more complex in design and often included appliqué.  I made some quilts from reproduction fabrics, using traditional patterns, but used modern construction techniques. Through these historical reproduction quilts, I tried to make contact with the ancestry of quilting and quilters.  A class with Nancy Crow opened a new world of contemporary art study for me, and I began to explore intuitively pieced quilting and its use in creating line and shape.  These explorations have provided a means for me to take ethereal thought and emotion and put them into a physical form.

My work has been exhibited in galleries and quilt shows throughout the country; most recently at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, at the AQS show in Paducah , and at the Ontario Museum of History and Art.   They have also been shown locally at Watkins Historical Museum and the Lawrence Art Center.  My Civil War era reproduction quilts have been pictured in several books by Barbara Brackman.  “Patchwork Jayhawk”, a commission piece, was part of the “Jayhawks on Parade” in Lawrence, KS during 2003.