March Meeting (Zoom) with Julia Graves-Make It Your Own - Design Guidelines for Quilters

Lecture: Make It Your Own – Design Guidelines for Quilters

Who hasn’t loved a pattern, but wanted to make it in different colors or a different size?  Or had ideas for quilts but didn’t know where to start?  Julia presents foundational design principles in easy to understand concepts to help guide your choices.  While the examples feature traditional quilts, there’s plenty here for the art quilter as well.  Good design is good design no matter where it’s applied!

Learn more about Julia on her website at http://www.soquilts.com

Julia Graves – Quilter, Longarmer, Teacher and Artist

Julia Graves started her quilting business, Special Occasion Quilts LLC, in 2007 and teaches, lectures, designs patterns, makes commission quilts, longarms for others, sells & services APQS longarm machines and writes for the APQS Blog.  She won Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Wall Quilt Category at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, has had quilts published in books by Gloria Loughman, Katie Pasquini-Masupust and MJ Kinman, was an Artist in Residence at Empty Spools in 2019, and is now a regular instructor at Empty Spools Seminars. 

Julia has been sewing since she was ten and always loved fabric, needle arts and the entire creative process.  She did her apprenticeship as a quilter by making a quilt for each of her nieces and nephews (and thinks she should have counted them before making this promise – there were 32!).  She has since made more quilts than she can count, many for charity, and is partial to scrap quilts and working with color to achieve amazing results.  Visit her gallery on her website at http://www.soquilts.com.  You can also find her on Instagram at #juliagraves82, or Facebook at soquilts.  Julia lives in Leesburg Virginia.