There’s nothing Julia McLeod likes more than incorporating old and neglected materials into new quilts, bringing them out of years of storage and into the light of day.  It saddens her to find a stack of vintage quilt blocks in a thrift shop or yard sale that were never made into a quilt.

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From vintage ‘orphan’ quilt blocks to long-forgotten linens, from textiles collected on travels overseas to thrift-shop clothing finds, many fabrics are too precious to be left hidden away. In this presentation Julia will show you how she transforms these treasures into vibrant new quilts, sharing both inspiring stories and practical techniques for working with unusual materials. This one-hour lecture includes a slide show, trunk show, and Q&A.

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BIO:

Julia McLeod is an award-winning quilt maker, presenter, instructor, quilt judge, and author living and working in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay Area.  She specializes in making quilts from rescued textiles, particularly silks.  Neckties, saris, kimonos, and furnishing fabrics all find their way into her quilts.

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Born and raised in England, Julia worked as a menswear textile designer in Yorkshire and Scotland before taking a job with a luxury tailoring company on London’s Savile Row. A design position at a menswear company in New York City brought me to the US in the early 1990’s and America has been her home ever since. She discovered quilt making on travels through the small Amish towns of Pennsylvania.

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Since 2016, she has specialized in making silk quilts, sourcing fabrics from reclaimed textiles, which became the starting point for her quilt designs. Her book, Patchwork Luxe: Quilts from Neckties, Kimonos and Sari Silks is published by C&T Publishing.  To learn more about Julia, please visit her website: https://juliamcleodquilts.com

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