I am Jackie White from
Jackie’s Art Quilts. I live on Manitoulin
Island, Ontario in a small town of 500 with my husband, two little
boys 7 and 8, and our giant standard poodle.
I started quilting 12
years ago and can’t believe the opportunities I have had, and
friends I have made along the way. I call myself an art quilter.
Every quilt I make has some type of 3D embellishment on it and I love
coming up with unique three dimensional items to add to my quilts. I
was once told that my methods might be ‘too out of the box for
Canadian quilting’. I disagree, Canadians are awesome at accepting
everyone!
Ripple in Time |
I have just joined the Canadian Quilters’ Association (CQA/ACC) Board and am absolutely loving meeting Canadian quilters face to face. I write a humourous column for CQA/ACC in their quarterly magazine. You can see a few of my past articles here.
I am part of an amazing
design team for Amanda Herring of ‘The Quilted Fish’.
She is a fabric designer and pattern maker. Amanda just published
a book and featured a pattern from each of her team in it. My
pattern was a fabric necklace. As for getting published, I was also
featured in ‘McCall’s’ magazine this past May with a quilt
pattern I designed.
I work for Pellon Inc. and Riley Blake fabrics doing tutorials for their websites.
Bird on a Wire |
A note about ‘Bird on a Wire’:
The
nest is three dimensional with a lovely blue stone in the middle and
the nest is surrounded by couching eyelash yarn around border. The
background is a traditional pieced pattern with black ‘branches’ running
throughout.
This past year has been
absolutely mind boggling because I got to go to Quilt Market in
Kansas City in May where all the fabric companies and designers
showcase their new lines and patterns. I was there with ‘The
Quilted Fish’ and we were promoting her new book and teaching
demos on my necklace pattern. Six days later I headed out to
Halifax to work at the Quilt Canada Conference. There I was able to
see two of my quilts hanging in the National Juried Show. (Quilt Canada Conference gallery pictures)
Fall Leaves |
A note about ‘Fall Leaves’:
Uses puzzle pieces as leaves and as a binding. Shiva stiks help create a colourful background. The thrill of entering juried shows is one of the reasons I quilt, not so much getting the rejection letters, (and I have A LOT of them), but the challenge and the joy of being accepted. I have started teaching workshops on my 3D art quilting and thoroughly enjoy encouraging quilters to try new methods and create quilts in a whole different way. I also continue to work hard at my blog to show my readers new and different things out there in the international quilt world and what I am up to.
Future goals include
teaching workshops in Canada on 3D art quilting and someday winning a
ribbon at a juried show.
My very favourite
things about quilting are meeting fellow quilters, especially when I
get the opportunity to meet Canadian ones, and continuing to create
my 3D art quilts.
Please drop by and check out my blog, as I am having a giveaway today! (Clarification: you need to leave the comment on my blog=)
Please drop by and check out my blog, as I am having a giveaway today! (Clarification: you need to leave the comment on my blog=)
I'm happy to meet you. Jackie. How cool that quilting offers so much variety to our lives in all kinds of different ways.
ReplyDeleteNice work Jackie!! Love that Ripple in Time quilt! It's very striking.
ReplyDeletea town of 500!?? wow
ReplyDeleteJackie is also involved here with TN&TN - as our 'woman in the know'. She updates the tab at the top of the page called "Call for Entry - Canada" : )
Nice to have you featured Jackie!! I hope all your goals materialize!
: )
Monika
sewing in Saskatoon
So nice to meet you, Jackie. I love the pieces you've shared with us!
ReplyDeleteNice work, Jackie and an interesting post. Well done!
ReplyDeleteYou have done a lot in 12 years! A little quilting is always appreciated!
ReplyDeleteI so enjoy reading about all our Canadian quilters here.
It's wonderful that you had quilts in the CQA show. I would love that someday too