Saturday, October 15th, 2022
Lecture: Julia Graves Lecture - My Quilting Journey and Trunk Show
Time: 1pm EST (approx. 1 hour + Q&A, with regular Guild meeting to follow)
Cost: The lecture is free to members. Zoom link will be sent via email or can be found in Facebook Members Only Group Events Lecture will not be recorded.
Guests can join us for $10 - pay HERE.
My Quilting Journey and Trunk Show Lecture:
You will laugh along with me as I talk about the good, the bad, and the many lessons I’ve learned in my 20 plus years of quilting. Such as – velveteen is not the best fabric to use for a quilt, a quilt in Best American Quilts is probably not a beginner quilt, and count how many quilts before you commit! Includes a slide show and trunk show of many quilts.
Julia Graves Bio:
Julia Graves – Quilter, Longarmer, Teacher and Artist. Julia started her quilting business, Special Occasion Quilts LLC, in 2007 and teaches, lectures, designs patterns, makes commission quilts, longarms for others and sells & services APQS longarm machines. She won Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Wall Quilt Category at the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, is a Gem Affiliate teaching the gorgeous gem patterns by MJ Kinman - Textile Artist, 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 will be teaching at Empty Spools in 2021 and 2022.
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. Julia lives in Leesburg Virginia.
Find out more about Julia on her Website, Instagram and Facebook.