Grandmother’s Garden, deriving its title from the classic quilt pattern “Grandmother’s Flower Garden,” examines the past and present production of quiltmaking as it relates to United States histories’ from the 19th and 20th centuries. Looking at the materiality of quilts, Grandmother’s Garden unthreads histories of cotton production under the histories of enslavement and share cropping in Southern states, textile production in New England’s textile mills, and settler colonial histories in the West. Grandmother’s Garden asks how quilts can move beyond simplistic nationalistic narratives to encompass a clearer picture of women in the US both in the past and present.