WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

We had a speaker last night. She is Anna Faustino. She was born inRussia and moved to the states in 1995 and loved to watch AlexAnderson and learned to quilt from her show. She was a trained artist in Russia, but her worked changed when she started to quilt and madeher own designs. She weaves fabrics and then appliques on top of it,then quilts them. She has earned many rewards. Her web site is http://www.newtechquilts.com/ and she is a member of Empire Quilters in NYand the New Jersey State Quilt Group in NJ. I bought her book, justso I can have the photos of her work.
Also click on her link to Empire Quilters to see her quilts there. I took a picture with my camera, at the NJ state show, of her "Fruits of my land" It is a photo of her husband she painted and quilted. He is holding two bowls of olives from his orchard. What a nice quilt.... There were many other painted and appliqued over a woven background. She claims it is easy and will do a work shop for us. She will prepair all the packets, for a fee of course. I think the guild is having her workshop. I will check at next months meeting. She only does one workshop a month and has an opening in August. It takes a while to get the kits ready. Check out her web site and photos ....
Donna, LEH,NJ

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