Quilters today have lots of good techniques and tools to help them hurry along like the hare, but this is the story of how, in recent years, Carol Anne has learned to enjoy the ways of the tortoise.  She'll bring lots of examples—a few digital but mostly in-person quilts—to show how doing the time can pay off, whether creating new designs or continuing a series, whether trying a new technique or revisiting something familiar.

Carol Anne has combined quilting, Japanese shibori dyeing and landscape images for over 25 years. Indigo dyeing, a current passion, reappears often in her work. She has exhibited and taught nationally and internationally. Her quilts are in public and private collections and have been published in numerous magazines and books.

Follow Nancy’s journey through the world of Fabric, Thread and Tulle. 
She will show examples of her work at various stages, from her very early Rock and Roll Quilts to Landscape Quilts depicting scenes of the seacoast. More recently, Nancy has created a series she calls her Sad Ladies, using a technique she has developed where minimal fabric color is used incorporating a gradation of several layers of tulle to bring the images to life. Nancy will explain the reasons for each of these stages and the techniques used in accomplishing each one.

Nancy has been sewing since she was a child but being a dancer since age four, much of her sewing has been costumes. She majored in dance at Adelphi University, and while there also studied costume design.  Although having had no other formal training as an artist she has always had an interest in art and graphic design. Ten years ago she was introduced to the technique of free style quilting and discovered a way of combining her sewing skills and artistic desires in a style all her own. Her work appears in many private collections throughout the United States and has won several awards in both the Fabric and Art worlds.

Join Gladi as she talks about who she is and how she got involved in quilting. 
She'll show many of her quilts, small and large, and discuss some of the
challenges she faced in creating the quilts, from the development of the design, choice of fabrics and the sewing techniques used to complete them.  Her designs tend to be traditional, though original, and she's known for her use of color and hand appliqué and hand quilting skills.

Gladi is a very busy woman.  She's a physician who works full time as the Medical Director of the University of New Hampshire Health Services, taking care of students and managing a fairly large clinical staff.  Quilting has been an avid avocation for the past 18 years.  She's won several awards, including a ribbon at the American Quilter’s Society annual show in Paducah, a Best of Show at the Vermont Quilt Festival, and she had a quilt on the cover of Quilter's Newsletter magazine.  She finds her hand appliqué and hand quilting to be relaxing and meditative after her stressful hours at work.  In addition, she has a supportive husband she enjoys traveling with, and loves spending time with her two children and two very young grandchildren.