The Open Up Quilt was a commission for Lizzy from the Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library in 2013. Lizzy worked with youth and staff from Hall Neighborhood House, led by Rachel Smith and Positive Young Brothers and Sisters led by Eldorado Anderson to create a quilt for the Newfield Branch Library in Bridgeport, CT. At the time the branch was located in a one room store front in a strip mall, a stones throw from the original 1922 brick library building, which was in disprepair and shuttered. The low ceilings and limited wall space of the storefront branch determined the twelve foot wide and three foot high dimensions of the quilt. Lizzy conceived the theme of "Open Up at the Newfield Library" with a central visual motif of a butterfly on an open book. Then she brainstormed with the children to come up with their own illustrations and words to support the theme, prompting the art workshops with the question, "What opens up at the Library?" You can see their clever and original solutions in the fabric art paintings and prints that make up the patchwork on either side of the butterfly. Each child also designed a butterfly for the far side borders. These were drawn in colored pencil on paper and then scanned into the computer and printed on special fabric with an ink jet printer. The quilt-top appliqué and patchwork sections were assembled by Lizzy with help from Peace by Piece quilter, Anna Veccia. The layered quilt was then put on the frame and hand quilted by the community. The quilt traveled to quilting bees at 22 Haviland Street Gallery and Peace by Piece meetings in Norwalk, and at Hall Neighborhood House, and the Burroughs Community Center in Bridgeport. The quilt now hangs proudly in the beautifully restored Newfield Branch Library children's room which reopended its doors in 2022.