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Quilt Artist of the Week: Cara Gulati

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I took a class from Cara Gulati at the Spring International Quilt Festival. I have to admit I had not heard of Cara before this class. In fact I’ve really been out of the active quilt world for a little while. Since I love to try my hand at new techniques and would like to do my own designs I liked the idea of her Threads of Imagination class where you learn to work with all those cool threads and also learn how to make your own fabric with water soluble stabilizer and snippets of threads.

I was thrilled with the class and Cara. Her basic philosophy on quilting is to not stress out and be “organic”. I love this and I love her designs. Everything is very bright, cheery and lots of fun. She publishes patterns and books at her publishing company Doodle Press. She also designs fabric that is reminiscent of her art quilts. Her quilt 3-D Party Explosion won Viewers Choice Award at the 2003 International Quilt Festival in Houston.

If you get a chance to take a class from Cara and you want to have fun while learning a new technique I highly recommend it. She has a list of teaching schedule on her website. Also, an article about her is in The Quilter magazine’s July 2007 issue.

The picture below is my fabric I made in her class. I’m still working on the quilted piece.
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Posted in Designers, General on June 22nd, 2007

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