2025 - 09/14 to 19 David Taylor! Pictorial Applique Worshop
David Taylor is thrilled to partner with the Peak to Peak Stitching quilt shop in Estes Park, Colorado, for a day-student workshop retreat. The workshop begins Sunday afternoon and continues through lunch on Friday. Class size is limited to 10 students. Please visit Taylor's pictorial appliqué workshop page for more information about the class curriculum. Cost for the workshop, which includes lunch, is $850. Students are responsible for their own accommodations, breakfast, dinner and travel. Interested students are advised to book accommodations soon as Fall is a peak season for visiting this gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. Peak to Peak Stitching is located at 363 E. Elkhorn Avenue, Suite 201 in the US Bank building.
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
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| Materials Included: | no |
| Requirements: | YOU MUST SIGN UP ON DAVID TAYLOR'S WEBSITE: https://www.davidtaylorartquilts.com/colorado-pa-workshops |
| Instructor: | David Taylor |
| Instructor Bio: | In the beginning I cannot remember a time in my life without fabric. As a child I was fascinated by my mother’s sewing machine, a 1967 Sears Kenmore, and could not wait until I was old enough to use it. My brothers and sisters and I would gather around our formica-topped dining room table (with aluminum edging) as my mother would set up the machine for a bit of sewing. “Mommy’s doing magic!” we would shout every time she wound a bobbin. At the age of 10 I sewed my first Halloween costume based on a design I saw in an issue of Betty Crocker’s Sphere magazine (mid-1970s.) I won a small frosted cake for First Place at my Cub Scout meeting that October in North Kingston, Rhode Island, where we were living at the time. I was hooked. "It wasn't until I landed a part-time job at a big-box fabric store and met Madeleine (Drake) Vail that I realized there were others in the world who were as addicted to fondling fabric as I was. In 1999, more than a decade into our friendship, Madeleine and I collaborated on a fund-raiser for the "Strings in the Mountains" Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO. Our challenge was to create a queen-sized art quilt for the Festival's annual poster design. The sale of the quilt in a silent auction would also serve as a major donation for Strings. No pressure. The final bid for the quilt was $25,000. We both now quilt as a way of life. I 'semi-retired' from my career as a computer graphic artist in July 2009. Since that time, I have enjoyed teaching my appliqué and quilting techniques throughout the world. I have logged more than 700,000 actual flight miles (more than 20 times the circumference of Earth), journeying to 47 of these United States, five countries, three continents, and 1,000 quilt shops (well, maybe not a thousand - but close).” David was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been the recipient of the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006, 2014), the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (2008), the Director’s Award at Road to California (2022), and a two-time Best-of-Show winner at IQA's Spring Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008), among others. His art quilts hang in numerous private collections. |
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You must sign up on David Taylor's website: www.davidtaylorartquilts.com/colorado-pa-workshops
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This class cannot be purchased online. Please contact the store for more information.