Mary’s Christmas Quilt Cookies (Cinnamon Hot & Orange Shortbread)

Double Square Cinnamon Hot & Orange Shortbread Cooling on a Wire Rack

Long ago, in a far away world called the University of Washington School of Art, there was a lone fiber artist who unapologetically extolled the power and deep meaning of color to her comrades who believed with all their hearts that any color other than gray was an indication of naiveté and gross pandering to the unenlightened masses, for whom beauty was—GASP—a virtue.