My folk-art imagery reflects my multi-cultural background and my fascination with folkart from around the world. Inspiration comes from memories collected during my African childhood with its animals and grasslands, a sojourn in the green South of England and time spent in Connecticut, Tennessee, Utah and Ohio.
Joanne Coppin - Bountiful, UT - Uniontown Square Quilt from my Folk Art Dreams CD
Mauna Wagner, CA - Duffel Bag from my Urban Sacs book
Joan Connelly - Duffel bag from my Urban Sacs Book
The quilt show was fabulous as usual. We got up really early to help hang the quilts and get a good look at them before all the streets were filled with people.
The quilts made by the staff at the Stitchin' Post are always hung on the store building many were inspired by classes Jean Wells had taught over the years. This year was the 35th anniversary of the show and there were many celebrations. It is amazing to me that it has been going so long and so successfully. Well done Jean and Valori!
As usual a little shopping was done by all. Cathy, Wendy and Susan had fun buying baskets to hold all of their sewing and knitting supplies.
Here are a few of the teachers quilts.
Judith Baker Montano
Sue Nickels
Jeannette DeNicolis Meyers
Barbara Shapel
Katie Pasquini Masopust
Denyse Schmidt
Denyse Schmidt
Hilde Morin
Tonye Belinda Phillips
Tonye Belinda Phillips
I have just spent a wonderful week in Sisters, OR teaching at Quilters Affair. I taught 5 days of classes. The first one was my Greta Needle Roll. We worked with textural fabrics, ribbons, beads, stitches and made roving balls by hand.
Each student used unique fabrics and ribbons to make their pieces very personal.
I also taught a three day class of Robin Run the Hedge. I loved this class as all the students had time to cut out and lay out most of their design. We then spent the last day working on stitches that they could incorporate on their applique.
They got a really good start and I can't wait to see the finished pieces.
I finished the week with a full day of making leaves using great embellishment techniques.
A couple of weeks ago I did a private workshop in my studio. We worked on the embellishment of leaves. Each student appliqued leaves onto a background prior to class. This gave them a good base to embellish.
We had fun creating with baby rickrack, beads, buttons and wonderful threads and fibers.
Each student had a great time working on a one of a kind piece.
I love to get pictures from my students of their finished quilts and projects. This Magnolia Quilt was done by Holly Regan from Cooma, Australia. Last year I taught this class while teaching at many different venues in Australia. She was in one of my classes, her quilt is wonderful and the quilting is fabulous.
Here is a block from Magnolia which Bobby Brady from Ohio made into this great purse.
Susan Trent of Quiltworks Northwest in Seattle WA teaches a wool class and while I was teaching at the store many of her students brought their quilts to share. They worked on my Ginger Grove quilt. I love all the creative changes that each student made to the original design. Really creative!
Darlene Wegrynowski of Ohio sent me these great pictures of her pillow from my pattern in American Patchwork and Quilting. Fun colors!
Jennifer Keltner from Des Moines, Iowa finished her Folklore quilt. Fabulous!
Happy 4th of July
