Last night we had a wonderful guest speaker at our guild meeting, Julie Hirota. She gave a warm and funny lecture illustrating her journey from receiving dual degrees in engineering at UC Davis, and working as a full time engineer to becoming a full time quilt artist. Like many of us, she dabbled in other areas of arts and crafts along the way as she tried to find her niche. I could really relate to her, as I was first a macrame enthusiast, then weaver and dyer of yarns, followed by becoming a polymer clay addict and finally have emerged as mostly a surface designer/quilter, although I may not be done yet.
Here are a few pictures of her quilts. To see more, visit her website,
http://www.jhiro.com/
Today Julie is teaching a class in subtractive applique, and this is an example of one of her pieces in that style. Sorry, it's not a great picture, with the heads in the way, but I think you can get the idea. Subtractive qpplique uses techniques similar to the reverse applique as practiced by the Kuna Indians of Panama.
Here is a picture of one of Julie's mosaic quilts.
I really like her tiled quilts the best.
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