Home: Wheaton, Illinois
Carol loves making quilts that incorporate many different fabrics and she enjoys machine quilting (walking foot, free motion, and quilting with metallic thread.) She enjoys making small quilted projects such as runners, tote bags, zipper bags and pincushions. Small projects facilitate play with color, design and new techniques with minimal investment in time and materials.
Carol likes to find ways to make the quilt 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. She has been teaching quilting classes for more than a dozen years. She loves sharing her ideas with others and encouraging students as they try new projects and techniques. She teaches both online and in-person, for quilt guilds and quilt shops, and at quilt shows.
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 way to manage these precious resources. Knowing how to approach the task helps transform the dreaded stash into a collection that is a delight to use. This lecture provides many practical ideas for making your fabric, tools, thread, books, and magazines readily accessible. Topics include how to fold and store fabric so that it’s easy to view and locate, labeling, 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 don’t always know how to put them all together to make quilts that we love. The term “scrap quilt” may bring to mind the use of leftovers that don’t look particularly 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 several key design principles that make multi-fabric quilts work and includes pairs of quilts to show the impact of incorporating these considerations. Multiple examples of color combinations are provided to give ideas for selecting and using fabrics from your stash to make fabulous multi-fabric quilts.
Learn more about Carol and find out about her classes and lectures on her Website at : Carol Quilts
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Contact Carol via Email: carolquilts123 @ gmail.com [remove spaces]
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