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In this class, Carol will teach 17 simple piecing techniques and really free ways of creating patchwork designs. Learn to play with color and design without anxiety, and use all of those leftover scraps you've been saving. We'll use strips, squares, wedgies, couching and fusing - just to name a few of the methods you'll get to try. All are fast and easy!
You'll go home with all of the components done to finish a quilt, and ideas galore to make more quilts using these methods. Tired of that precise cutting and those exacting patterns? Then this is the class for you. It will free you up and make you more creative. Come join us for the fun! Explore simple piecing techniques and great ways of creating patchwork designs. Learn to play with color and design without anxiety, and use all of those leftover scraps you've been saving. Learn fast and easy ways to free you up and make you more creative. |
Carol's Biographical Information
IInternationally known, award-winning quilt artist, Carol Taylor, approaches her quilt making with intensity and a seemingly boundless energy. Vibrant colors, striking contrasts, use of value, as well as heavy machine quilting and embroidery distinguish Carol's quilts. She has created over 500 quilts since she began quilting in 1993. She also serves on the SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) board of directors. Carol has won six "Best of Show" awards in her career...with six different quilts!
Other honors for Carol include the selection of her work for the Smithsonian's "Following the Thread" exhibit in 2002, and the mixed media exhibitions, Crafts National 2000-2006, (2 Juror's Awards), Materials: Hard and Soft 2003-2008, and the 24th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibit in Mesa Arizona, 2002, where she won a Juror's Award, Art Quilt Elements 2008, Craft Forms 2009, Handcrafted 2004, and Gross McCleaf Gallery's Contemporary Quilts 2003 & 2004, and the Boston Fine Arts Show 2006. Her quilt, "Cymbalism", was one of fifteen selected for the Museum of American Folk Art's exhibition, which toured from 2001-2003.
Carol has also won a myriad of awards at quilt shows, including an amazing 33 major prizes in 2006-2008, and 39 in 2004 & 2005. This includes a number of first prizes and awards for the Best Wall Quilt, Best Use of Color, Best Embellishment, and Best Threadwork at the American Quilters' Society in Paducah KY, the International Quilt Association in Houston, TX, and many other gallery shows. A teacher by degree, & outgoing by nature, she has been a sales recruiter "headhunter") for 22 years but closed her business in October 2003 to teach quilting internationally. Her 14 workshops are said to be "fun, motivational, & non-threatening." Carol delights in using hand-dyed fabrics in her abstract, motif-driven designs, accented by the use of value. Her art quilts grace the walls of hospitals & businesses as well as many private collectors. Gallery inquiries, & exhibition opportunities are welcomed. Purchase information available by contacting the artist. |
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