Candy Grisham will be sharing her Dresden plate quilt block journey with TQG members on Monday, May 9. The Zoom doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7p.m.
What happens if you give a girl a wedge ruler? She makes a quilt and then another. She writes a pattern, then makes another quilt or two or three, then writes a book and begins to share her passion and love of Dresden quilt blocks reimagined. Join us for a trunk show featuring this journey with many photos and instruction; followed with Q & A session.
Candy says that she has always been fascinated with fabric, sewing and quilting since the age of nine when she took her first sewing class and won a prize for her corduroy jumper and print shirt with a necktie. When she saw an ancestor’s quilt in the Smithsonian at age thirteen, she was hooked. She taught herself to quilt from books and used cardboard templates and scissors to make her first quilt, a Log Cabin. It has been a love affair ever since.
Candy loves using fabrics, themes, and colours from nature, although she finds that she is leaning more and more toward bright fabrics with a lot of prints. Many of her works have a “tradition-with-a-twist” quality, and although she relies on inspirations from generations gone by, they also have a contemporary feel. She has dabbled in fibre art, challenges, traditional quilting, and modern quilting, and she loves it all!
She has taught quilting for more than twenty years and loves teaching and exploring with students as much as creating. She has had quilts and fibre art pieces juried into shows with Missouri Fiber Artists, the American Quilter’s Society in Kentucky, the International Quilt Association in Houston, and the National Quilt Association in Ohio, as well as into many local and regional shows and displays.
Candy published her first pattern on the Dresden quilt (of course!) in 2015 and her second in 2018. Her book Dresden Quilt Blocks Reimagined was published in 2019.
You can learn more about Candy on her website, Instagram and Facebook.
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