Quilts Make You Smile
Attending a quilt show really gets your creative juices flowing. You see fabric and color combinations that you might not have thought of. You see pattern and designs that catch your eye. You see quilting that leaves you wanting to practice your skills more!
Meeting the quilt artist adds to the fun of a quilt show. Cathy Wiggins, who quilts on an APQS Millennium, was born and raised in eastern North Carolina were she received degrees in mathematics and software engineering. Even though her education is in technology, her love has always been art and any form of creativity. During her years in telecommunications she continued to foster her love of art through taking numerous workshops on subjects such as sculpting, pottery, and all forms of painting. She eventually settled on using acrylic paints on paper as her medium of choice. Through experimenting and practice, Cathy developed her own style of painting where she would, through the use of value and layers of paint, interpret photographs on paper. She won numerous awards locally and nationally for her work and began teaching her technique to others.
Cathy began quilting in February of 2003 after attending her first national quilt show. The following year, her quilt was juried into the AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Paducah, Kentucky. Since that time she has won many national and international awards for her quilts and is teaching her design techniques.
Now Cathy creates quilts that are both whimsical and humorous. Cathy says, “I just want to create quilts for the pure fun of it. I want to create quilts that bring smiles to the faces of the viewers and designs that are ageless, things that remind us of our childhood.” In addition to writing articles for magazines and traveling nationally to teach, she is now writing books and creating patterns based on her award-winning quilts.
Cathy was successful in her goal with this project. The colorful appliqued verse first caught my eye.
But it was this character on her quilt that really made me smile and bring back sweet memories for me. My mother will smile too, as we remember me roller skating around the kitchen table and the little figurine of a girl roller skating I gave her as a gift. Thank you Cathy, for making me smile.
How could a chicken lover not love this quilt by Vicky Conley of New Mexico.
No matter how many creative, original designs I see, my heart always stops when I see a traditional quilt like Red-Delicious, pieced by Shirley Neville and quilted by Gail Dunn of Colorado. Simply stunning.
Meeting the quilt artist adds to the fun of a quilt show. Cathy Wiggins, who quilts on an APQS Millennium, was born and raised in eastern North Carolina were she received degrees in mathematics and software engineering. Even though her education is in technology, her love has always been art and any form of creativity. During her years in telecommunications she continued to foster her love of art through taking numerous workshops on subjects such as sculpting, pottery, and all forms of painting. She eventually settled on using acrylic paints on paper as her medium of choice. Through experimenting and practice, Cathy developed her own style of painting where she would, through the use of value and layers of paint, interpret photographs on paper. She won numerous awards locally and nationally for her work and began teaching her technique to others.
Cathy began quilting in February of 2003 after attending her first national quilt show. The following year, her quilt was juried into the AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Paducah, Kentucky. Since that time she has won many national and international awards for her quilts and is teaching her design techniques.
Now Cathy creates quilts that are both whimsical and humorous. Cathy says, “I just want to create quilts for the pure fun of it. I want to create quilts that bring smiles to the faces of the viewers and designs that are ageless, things that remind us of our childhood.” In addition to writing articles for magazines and traveling nationally to teach, she is now writing books and creating patterns based on her award-winning quilts.
Cathy was successful in her goal with this project. The colorful appliqued verse first caught my eye.
But it was this character on her quilt that really made me smile and bring back sweet memories for me. My mother will smile too, as we remember me roller skating around the kitchen table and the little figurine of a girl roller skating I gave her as a gift. Thank you Cathy, for making me smile.
How could a chicken lover not love this quilt by Vicky Conley of New Mexico.
No matter how many creative, original designs I see, my heart always stops when I see a traditional quilt like Red-Delicious, pieced by Shirley Neville and quilted by Gail Dunn of Colorado. Simply stunning.
These quilts are wonderful. The girlfriends and chicken are such great fun. Thank you for sharing.
Have a super great day.
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