Home: Hampton, Virginia
Joy Duke is the designer of over 100 patterns for Joyous Appliqué Designs and the author of numerous articles for Quiltinghub.com as a quilting contessa. Joy specializes in applique patterns that are easy, fun, and nature-inspired that all quilters are capable of making. Joy also likes to incorporate yo-yos in unusual ways in her applique pattern designs. Her latest passion is bamboo felt applique which allows those that are allergic to wool, or that don’t have the budget for it, to create beautiful fun pieces of art.
In addition to designing, teaching, and lecturing for guilds (both in-person and via ZOOM), she enjoys going to the beach and spending time with her family. Sometimes she is even found stitching on the beach or around a competition swimming pool and meets the nicest people when stitching in public. These interactions lead her to create one of her most popular lectures/trunk shows entitled “Stitching in Public”.
Lecture titles include:
“Stitching in Public” – A fun trunk show where Joy shares the funny things and advice people have shared with her while she is stitching.
“Making It Your Own” – A look at how we can take a pattern and make simple changes to personalize it either for the recipient or the maker. It is meant to help quilters think about how they can use that pattern that they really like and “tweak it” a bit. This was the way Joy got started designing her own patterns.
“A Look at Inspiration and What Designers Like to See” – this trunk show lets you see how a designer comes up with ideas and what inspires us. It may also give you ideas of ways that you can use something in your life to add to a design to take a pattern further; whether that means having a “pillow pattern” grow up to be the center of a quilt, or just changing the size of a motif to adapt it to your needs.
45 minute to 1 hour ZOOM lectures start at $250 (March 2021). Please see Joy’s website for information on classes and lectures. Website: www.JoyousAppliqueDesigns.com Contact Joy at JoyousAppliqueDesigns @ cox.net [take out the spaces]
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