Nancy crow quilts

Nancy Crow has had her struggles and false starts, but the dynamic quiltmaker has ended up right where she’s supposed to be.

Nancy Crow is an Ohio-based modern quilt pioneer, teacher, and author who has inspired generations of artists with her creativity.

Artist Nancy Crow has been making quilts for over 40 years. She maintains large studios and a teaching facility on her 218 acre farm east of Columbus, Ohio. Named a Fellow of the American Craft Council, she has received the major award, The Individual Artist’s Fellowship, from the Ohio Arts Council twice and The National Living Treasure Award from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. In addition, she was named a Master of her Medium in Textiles by The James Renwick Alliance…

For the record, I need to start by confessing that a week after I sent in my deposit for the workshop, I got cold feet and tried to back out of it. I had been told by a number of people that Nancy …

All week we are using a linear motif each student was to design before coming to the class. Here is mine. The first day we were to create two finished sewn-together compositions of about 36 inches square. The first composition was to use black and one color in a flat and a bright tone. The second composition used white and the same color in two tones. Here are my 2 compositions.

Did I tell you I am taking a second Nancy Crow Workshop? This time I am going to Quilting by the Lake in upstate NY in November and participating in the Sets and Variable III workshop. Have I taken Sets and Variable I or II. No, of course not. LOL Nancy has given us a lot of prep work to prepare for her workshop. The first thing we are to do is draw lots of motifs with simple and compound lines. Second, we are to pick some of the better motifs and sew them with a white background and black…

I have just returned from an exhilarating, humbling, exhausting week at Nancy Crow’s Timber Frame Barn in Ohio. Nancy Crow Timber Frame Barn – June 2017 It was my first trip to the Barn…

Gallery of art works made by Nancy Crow - contemporary quilt-making, art, quilts

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt I must admit I do judge books by their covers and sometimes just the mention of Gee's Bend Quilts in a book review will prompt me...