So let’s meet Jinny and find out what she is up to!
Post your photo at our Flickr folder and one quilter will win a prize of Aurifil thread! Post a photo of your completed top or a project. Everyone in the flickr folder is in the running!
Flickr folder – http://www.flickr.com/groups/2011aurifildesignerofthemonth/
I was in the commissary in New Delhi, India and saw a quilt that was being raffled off for a charity. It had a white background and appliqued flowers and cross-hatch quilting. I said to myself that it looked like a mattress pad with flowers stuck on it. And I thought that if I ever made a quilt I wouldn’t want anyone to think I had doctored up a mattress pad. But that must have put the bee in my head because not even a month later I had begun my first quilt It was a Flower Garden with “flowers” of red and blue hand block printed Indian prints with the background a dark navy blue. (on a personal note i do believe I must duplicate this GMFG one day.. it’s amazing!… Pat)
I love quilts that have movement or create optical illusions
I like the hand piecing and hand quilting. It is relaxing and fills bits of “found” time.
I used to do a lot of knitting and every once in a while will take up a knitting project, but I really don’t have the time anymore.
I have a degree is Deaf Education. Shortly after I received my degree I helped start the first school for the deaf in Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo. After that did volunteer work at schools for the deaf in the other countries we lived, Nepal and India.
I love to garden and try to get at least a couple of hours a day in my vegetable garden or one of my flower gardens. (Jinny’s Quilt Garden is well known here in Virginia!… Pat)
No rituals…..I just delve into the fabrics and make a huge mess.
Sometimes it is colors in the garden that inspire me or a beautiful photo of something in nature. (This is Jinny with her pepper factory… look at the COLORS! … Pat)
I love Aurifil #28 weight for all my hand piecing. The main colors I use are black, burgundy, dark brown, dark green, navy blue and a medium tan. When sewing a light piece to a dark piece, I use a darker colored thread because I think the stitches are less apt to show.
I don’t use a sewing machine. My must have tools are Aurifil 28 weight thread, Clover large Patchwork scissors, Dovo small folding scissors, Tommie Jane Lane thimble, and my Perfect Piecer ruler. (Jinny is purely a hand piecer in case you didn’t realize that!)
I do travel to teach, but mostly for shops and large conferences. Interest in quilting is growing in countries outside the U.S and quite a lot of my teaching over the last few years has been done in foreign countries.
12. How would you describe your personality? Are you process oriented, detailed, big picture, are you carefree, structured, unstructured, all over the place depending on the project?
I would say I’m driven. Once I start a project I’m very focused on it. I like a lot of detail in my work and I like to use a lot of fabrics.
I would love to follow Caryl Bryer Fallert around for a day. She has a fabulous sense of color.
- A Song that makes you ‘dance the happy dance’ – I love folk music and a good banjo picking song will get me moving.
- The Color you have always LOVED…..I have always loved Ruby Red.
************** THE PATTERN/The Giveaway ******************
CLICK HERE to download the Border Print Placemat Pattern
EACH MONTH we will pick one random winner that has made one of the Designer projects to receive a special Aurifil thread prize.. wowzer!!.
You can make ANY of the designer projects (and we hope you make them all!)
Share your photos at our Flickr Folder… we can’t WAIT to see what you do!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2011aurifildesignerofthemonth/
***************************Join us at FACEBOOK ****************************
Become a member of the AURlfil fan page on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/aurifil.quilt.thread
Sign up for Jinny’s newsletter at her website www.jinnybeyer.com
CLICK HER for the Direct link to the newsletter for August
and I hope you join me, Pat Sloan, at my facebook Quilt PAGE
http://www.facebook.com/PatSloanQuiltFun
And read my daily blog http://www.PatSloan.typepad.com
****************************************************************