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Get ready for new adventures in conventional piecing with celebrated quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe. Create stunning Double Wedding Ring quilts with breathtaking innovations on the classic pattern. With full-size patterns for 10 quilts, the book will teach you the Double Wedding Ring basics. After you've mastered curved foundation piecing, try your hand at Victoria's unique fabric slashing and "Made-Fabric" methods -- it's easier than you think! You'll feel liberated as you improvise on her designs, with full instruction for some quilts and others that invite your creative discovery. Read the stories that inspired each of Victoria's designs, and then take inspiration from the artist at work in her studio, with photography of her creative process and 3 bonus quilts to jump start your own art.
About the Author
Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Is a NYC based International Award Winning Quilter and teacher. She was raised on a farm in central Minnesota, and learned to sew and quilt when she was just four years old. Victoria graduated from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in Fine Art in 1993, and a year later moved to New York City. Her website: vfwquilts.com Victoria has a Quilt Store in NYC, where you can find all of her own products including her own template line! VFW Quilts NYC Store, 325 West 38th St Suite 811, NY Y 10018Victoria designs fabrics for RJR Fabrics, Has her own template and pattern line, and is a licensed designer for Sizzix.com and an Aurifil thread designer. Victoria is also the JUKI USA Ambassador. Victoria is the founder of the NYC Metro MOD Guild, and member of the Manhattan Quilt Guild and SAQA. Victoria travels to teach and lecture on Creativity and Play all over the U.S. Japan and Australia. Her quilts have won many awards and she has had a number of solo exhibitions, including The International Quilt Study Center, Iowa, & Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & fiber Arts, International Quilt Festival Show in Houston, and the NEC Show in Birmingham, UK. She is active behind the scenes as well with the Quilt Alliance, an advisory board member of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Textiles, and her own community based quilt drives. She has written four books: 15 Minutes of Play, Double Wedding Rings: Traditions Made Modern, Modern Quilt Magic, and Victoria Findlay Wolfe's Playing with Purpose ( May 2019. CTpub) Victoria's work balances between Art Quilts, Traditional & Modern Quilts and has a master flair bringing the fine art of quilting to the modern age. She is proud to be a quilter, a mother to Beatrice, and a wife to Michael Findlay, the true loves in Victoria's life.Victoria lives with her husband, Michael Findlay, an art dealer and author, and their Daughter Beatrice. Michael's book, The Value of Art can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Findlay/e/B006T8UWLE/ref=sr_tc_2_0? qid=1347023376&sr=1-2-ent And his new book, Seeing Slowly is out now.
