Member Profile - AMY

Amy has bee quilting for 40 years and has an extensive knowledge of many diverse styles and textile techniques used in quilting. To express her artistic vision in textiles, she makes originally designed art quilts, and uses fabric collage, 3-dimensional pieces, hand painted, stamped and printed fabrics, beading and other embellishments to achieve special effects in her art quilts. All of this is pulled together by her love of extensive machine quilting.

Amy is a past President of the Umpqua Valley Quilters' Guild and twice been featured quilter at their show. She is very active in the quilting community and as a member of "Fyber Cafe" she strives to improve her artistic expression on textiles. She has won numerous awards at the Douglas Co. Fair, and the Umpqua Valley Quilters' Guild Shows. She has had two art quilts traveling in international shows, in "Currency Exchange" and "International Festivals" during 2007-10, in France, Japan and New Zealand.

After learning to embroider, macrame, knit and crochet, Amy started quilting in high school, making many "Trip Around the World" king size quilts, by cutting squares out one at a time. Rotary cutters changed all that, as she became interested in designing her own quilts and learning new techniques, she turned to art quilting as her passion. She loves to teach and help others get this same passion for textiles that she has. Her favorite advice is "Run out of fabric, your solution may offer just the creative spark your quilt needs, and help you think out of the box"