Home: Wheaton, Illinois
During forty years of quilting, Carol has become interested in making small quilted projects as well as quilts. She loves making quilts that incorporate many different fabrics from her extensive stash. She enjoys machine quilting of all types: walking foot, free motion, and ruler quilting. She also loves quilting with metallic thread.
Small projects are fast to make, facilitating play with color, design and new techniques. She has made many runners, tote bags, pincushions and Christmas ornaments. Some of her quilted pieces incorporate machine embroidery. She has also made hundreds of zipper bags and is always thrilled to find a new easy method for inserting a zipper!
As a retired physician, she enjoys bringing her technical mind to quilting. She likes to find ways to make the construction process easier while producing better results. She has also refined techniques for building, organizing, and using a stash that make it a joy to have and to use.
Carol has been teaching quilting classes for more than ten years. She loves sharing her ideas with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. One of her favorite aspects of teaching is seeing students succeed at completing a challenging project. Another is seeing students have “Aha!” moments during which they see how simple changes in technique can help them create projects that look better while taking less effort. She has been teaching online for the past year, including two lectures at the 2020 Virtual Quilt Festival and hands-on classes.
Get your Stash Together: Organization for Quilters
Some quilters find that their fabric stash, scraps, quilting tools, books and magazines have become a burden, as they don’t have a good approach for organization and storage of these precious resources. Knowing how to approach the task of organizing quilting supplies makes it easy to transform the dreaded stash into a collection that is a delight to use. This online lecture/demonstration will provide many practical ideas on how to organize and store your fabric, tools, thread, books and magazines so that they are readily accessible. Knowing how to approach organization is a major leap towards getting it done! The demonstration will include how to fold and store fabric so that it’s easy to view and locate, labeling, ideas on shelves, cabinets, racks, drawers and boxes, using your computer as a tool and many ideas for actually using your stash.
Infinite Opportunity: Quilts Hidden in Your Stash
As quilters, we love to collect beautiful fabrics – yet we are often not sure quite how to put them all together to make quilts that we love. The term “scrap quilt” may bring to mind using leftovers that don’t necessarily look good together. By contrast, while STASH quilts utilize your stash and scraps, they contain thoughtfully selected materials, and look BETTER because of the variety – not tired because they were created just to use up fabrics. The lecture addresses what makes multi-fabric quilts work. It includes many examples and demonstrations showing design principles, color combinations, and patterns to give you ideas for selecting and using fabrics from your stash to make great multi-fabric quilts.
A list of Carol’s lectures and classes is available at: https://www.carolquilts.com/classes
Learn more about Carol on her Website at : www.carolquilts.com
Contact Carol via Email: carolquilts123 @ gmail.com [remove spaces]
Be sure to tell Carol that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!