Quilts in Glorious Color: Liza Roos Prior Lucy ’74

Skillman Library, First Floor
Fall 2010

African Collage Quilt from Shots and Stripes by Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy. 2013

A selection of quilts by Liza Lucy, a quilt, needlepoint, and knitting designer and expert quiltmaker, who has collaborated with celebrated textile designer, Kaffe Fassett, on four major quilt design books.  She is the owner of Glorious Color, Inc., in New Hope, Pennsylvania, a source for fabrics designed by Fassett and others.  The exhibit is in honor of the 40th anniversary of the arrival of Lafayette’s first women students in the fall of 1970.  Lucy is a member of this distinguished first class of women, the Class of 1974, and she has created a quilt to commemorate her classmates, which is on view. A selection of quilts by Liza Lucy, a quilt, needlepoint, and knitting designer and expert quiltmaker, who has collaborated with celebrated textile designer, Kaffe Fassett, on four major quilt design books.  She is the owner of Glorious Color, Inc., in New Hope, Pennsylvania, a source for fabrics designed by Fassett and others.  The exhibit is in honor of the 40th anniversary of the arrival of Lafayette’s first women students in the fall of 1970.  Lucy is a member of this distinguished first class of women, the Class of 1974, and she has created a quilt to commemorate her classmates, which is on view.