Candy has been fascinated with fabric, sewing and quilting since the age of nine, when she took her first sewing class and won a prize for her corduroy jumper and print shirt. When she saw an ancestor’s quilt in the Smithsonian at age thirteen, she was hooked. She taught herself to quilt from a book and used cardboard templates and scissors to make her first quilt, a Log Cabin. It has been a love affair ever since.
Candy loves using fabrics, themes and colors from nature, but also leans more and more to bright fabrics with prints. Many of her works have a “traditional with a twist” quality. She relies on inspirations from generations gone by and put a contemporary feel to her designs.
She dabbles in fiber art, challenges, machine quilting and modern quilting. She loves it all.
Candy has taught quilting for more than twenty years and loves teaching and exploring with students as much as the creating. She has been lucky to have quilts and fiber art pieces juried into shows with Missouri Fiber Artists, the American Quilter’s Society in Kentucky and the International Quilt Association in Houston as well as many local and regional shows and displays.
Candy’s journey with the Dresden block into the Modern quilt world, art quilts and publishing will be the basis of her presentation.
