The Quilting Experience: A Celebration of Community and Patchwork Patterns

Description: Internationally renowned teacher Victoria Findlay Wolfe invites quilters to treasure their vibrant community while making blocks for an Experience Quilt These complete instructions and patterns for 12 original quilt block designs, each representing a profound life theme such as "Friendship," "Aging," "Celebration," and "Grief," let readers create an Experience Quilt rich with their personal narrative. . 12 original block designs by Victoria each include clear instructions with multiple sizes and colorway variations. . Includes 11 additional projects--quilts and pillows--that your blocks can build. . Technique lessons and tips on, for example, efficient partial seam construction, to collage together blocks of various sizes beyond a basic grid layout. . Victoria Findlay Wolfe welcomes quilters to claim their place in the diverse community that includes many ages, backgrounds, skill levels, and life journeys. . With the power of a quilting bee conversation, thought-provoking, poignant, and amusing stories shared by diverse quilters illuminate each theme. . In Victoria's signature way, these designs appeal to historical-, traditional-, and modern-focused quilters alike. . A foreword by Meg Cox emphasizes how diversity among quilters offers strength to all. AUTHORS: Victoria Findlay Wolfe is an award-winning quilter, artist, and teacher whose designs balance traditional, modern, and art-quilting styles. She teaches and lectures on creativity and process, and designs quilting supplies for VFW Quilts and Aurifil. The founder of the NYC Metro Modern Quilt Guild, she has served on the boards of the Quilt Alliance and the International Quilt Museum and contributes her creativity to many organizations, including SAQA and the Textile Study Group of New York. Her quilts have traveled the globe and have been featured at the National Quilt Museum, the International Quilt Museum, Visions Art Center, the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, QuiltCon, and the International Quilt Festival Houston, among others. Victoria's quilt store provides patterns, templates, kits, courses, and community. Her previous books include Double Wedding Rings: Traditions Made Modern. She is mother to Beatrice and wife to Michael Findlay and lives in New York. Meg Cox is a journalist and book author. A writer for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, she now is a thought leader on the topics of quilting and family traditions. SELLING POINTS: . Craft your story by making life-theme quilt blocks, and enjoy your place in the quilting community . Make 12 quilt block designs to combine into a personal Experience Quilt and 11 other projects . Poignant, sometimes funny stories shared by quilters highlight how we harness creativity to navigate life events 300 colour photos, diagrams and patterns

Price: 36.28 USD

Location: East Hanover, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-12-30T12:46:34.000Z

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