Karen Azevedo and I have been good friends for many, many years and I have always been in awe of her incredible talent. She does amazing quilting and handwork and was also one of the featured quilters at my 2016 special exhibit in Houston. One of her passions is Provencal Boutis. I am the lucky recipient of a few small gifted pieces of her work but I just HAD to show you the beautiful large piece she just finished yesterday. There are simply no words... I'll share Karen's brief story and photos below. FABULOUS job Karen!!!! Hugs, Cindy :) "I...
When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how these would look using linen parts. American Quilter magazine approached me in February about doing an article for their upcoming September issue and they wondered if I had anything new I could write about??? I told them about my new venture with Lexies (Linen...
I received a beautiful Show and Tell from Jan Fozard the other day and I was blown away by her amazing work on this incredible linen. She agreed to allow me to share her work with all of you. Thank you Jan and congratulations on an OVER THE TOP piece! Cindy *** The quilt was worked on a HQ Infinity Long-arm machine. It was 100 % hand guided with rulers used for...
I'm busy "upgrading" some of my lectures and have added some new instruction to my Ultimate Stencil lesson. I thought you might enjoy some of the new tips I'll be sharing with my classroom students. My past few wholecloth workshop students have been using the Ultimate Border motifs to add extra details to their medallions. I will be posting some of THEIR designs in my next post. Here are a couple of ideas that have been added to my lecture. In the classroom we always start with a very simple 8-pointed star. This is very easily drafted on the circle...
I wanted to let everyone know that I will be teaching at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England this year! The show runs August 9-12th. You can check out the website by clicking HERE.
Hugs, Cindy
