Hi Fellow Canadian
Quilters!
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!
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| 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.
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| 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)
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| 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=)