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Christine’s passion for color and quilts has evolved from early pursuits in textile arts and writing, combined with degrees in journalism and design. Her career has taken parallel paths, as a freelance writer of decorating and quiltmaking books, and teacher of color workshops. She is the author of Color: The Quilter’s Guide. “Don’t fear color,” says Christine. “Success with color is more about practice and experience than talent.”
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This Castle Hill, Maine, resident comes from a family rich in quilting traditions. Although many of her cherished quilts were destroyed in a fire 27 years ago, Dana, who is also a porcelain painter, continues to make quilts and quilted items for family, friends, and fundraising. She has longtime knowledge of and appreciation for Oriental art.
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Well known in Japanese magazines, books, television, and quilt exhibitions for her exquisite work, Akiko’s style usually incorporates bright color. Antique Japanese cotton and silks are her favorite quilting fabrics. She has recently focused on the flower motif, and she shares her bias-edge appliqué technique from this issue’s stunning cover quilt.
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So there Ami was, a teenaged college junior from the suburbs of Detroit, minding her own business and on her way to an undergraduate degree in anthropology when she found herself following an Amish woman home in her buggy at seven miles per hour. Ami’s hands on the steering wheel were punctured by needle stabs, the natural result of refusing the offer of a thimble when she tried her hand at quilting with a group of Old Order Amish women earlier that afternoon. She thought that if she was agreeable and pleasant and smiled a lot, the Amish would like her, and maybe invite her to spend time with them, and that she could use what she learned for her thesis and that she could graduate and go on and maybe teach.
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When not in a quilt shop, at a quilt show, or in her studio, Barbara helps nonprofit organizations raise money through her consulting business, Mission Match Consulting. She shares her Phoenix, Arizona, home with two cats that enjoy watching her work, as long as dinner is never late.
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The charm of an antique quilt is apparent in this simple yet graphic design. Using only reds and cream, the maker set squares on point so a pattern of rectangles was created.
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It is easy to take a basic elements in quilting designs like CANDACE VARIATION and modify it to become a block, border, or even a pantograph as
in VIRGINIA HORIZONTAL.
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ndividually, these award-winning quilters from Wisconsin teach at local technical colleges, as well as for guilds, shops, and at shows throughout the United States. Together they lead quilting cruises in the United States and abroad.