Month: May 2018

  • Carole Lyles Shaw The Creativity Project Week 21 Kim Soper/Leland Ave Studios

    The Creativity Project Week #21: Carole Lyles Shaw

    Carole Lyles Shaw is a quilt designer, teacher and author. Carole began her quilting journey when she decided to teach herself to make quilts so that she could gift them to her nieces and nephews. She connected with the African American Quilters of Baltimore, and in a short time, the members taught her the best…

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  • Kathryn Upitis The Creativity Project Week 20 Kim Soper/Leland Ave Studios

    The Creativity Project Week #20: Kathryn Upitis

    By day, Kathryn Upitis (aka Dr. Kathryn Dundas) uses integrative medicine to heal people as a whole: body, mind and spirit. When quilting, Kathryn applies this same approach to the quilts that she makes. She infuses everything she touches with intention, positive energy and the desire for her art to heal. Kathryn has not been…

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  • Kim Soper/Leland Ave Studios

    How to Breathe Your Way to Better Quilts

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  • Shelagh Jessop The Creativity Project Week 19 Kim Soper/Leland Ave Studios

    The Creativity Project Week #19: Shelagh Jessop

    Shelagh Jessop is an American-born textile artist living in Western France. Shelagh studied textile design at the University of Kansas where she began her love of hand-dying fabrics. Inspired by the quilters of Gees Bend, Shelagh began using her own hand-dyed works in the creation of quilts that she considered to be like painting with…

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  • Improv, Color and Curves Kim Smith Soper/Leland Ave Studios

    Improv, Color, and Curves

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  • The Creativity Project Week #18: Heather Black

    Heather Black has always been creative. She spent much of her life working in oil paints, but the cleanup process led her to hang up her brushes once and for all. Lucky for us, she discovered quilting in 2011 and has never looked back. Heather has skyrocketed to success with her bold geometric patterns, playful…

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