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About
Ann S. Lainhart From 1999 through 2002, I was the proprietor of The Quilted Gallery located in Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Being able to devote full time to quilting for 5 months a year enabled me to explore several new ideas in my own work. I also met so many wonderful people! I will miss my studio overlooking Smith Cove, but have now set up my studio in my home. I consider myself a contemporary traditionalist when it comes to quilting. By this I mean that much of my work is based on traditional quilt blocks such as Card Trick, Mariner's Compass, Eight-pointed Star, etc., but by using modem cottons, hand-dyed fabrics, border prints, and fussy-cutting, my work has a very contemporary feel. In the last few years, I have been adapting Chinese lattice designs to quilting and they are designs that have been used in China for thousands of years, so again I have based my work on an old tradition; see my article in the Spring 1998 issue of American Quilter. The same
goes for bargello designs that go back to the Middle Ages in needlepoint,
but in my color-shift bargellos, I am making use of all the marvelous
new designs being used in modem cottons including baticks and metallics.
These color-shifts have at least 90 I have been quilting for 24 years and teaching for the last 15. While living in Boston, I was a member of the Proper Bostonian Quilters. Now I am a member of the Common Threads Quilt Guild in Topsfield, Massachusetts. I am also a member of the East Coast Quilters Alliance and the American Quilter's Society. I have had quilts in the Vermont Quilt Festival (a third place ribbon), the New England Images shows, and the East Coast Quilters Alliance "A Quilter's Gathering" (a blue ribbon on a Bargello Jacket in 1998 and a white ribbon for hand quilting in 2001). I enjoy working with people to make commissioned wall-hangings that will fit their space and color scheme. I also enjoy giving slide shows, trunk shows, and workshops to quilt guilds and other groups. Ann S. Lainhart |
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