Saturday, September 7, 2013

Julie Hirota at Almond Country Guild Meeting

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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