Jen Kingwell Australian Quilt Designer

Oh Oh so I'm here this ditchin post and sisters are again with Jim King well who talked a two-day class that's right and tell us where you're from I am from Melbourne in Australia which is the south east coast the south east coast okay so Melbourne is a little bit above Tasmania if you know where Tasmania is and I live actually live on the great ocean road which is one of the eleven wonders of the world I think now it's been so it's absolutely beautiful and we live in a sleepy little seaside village called torta oh that sounds wonderful so how long have you been quilting oh do I have to say you all know how old I am no no you might have started when you were a toddler I yes I did have a 40 in excess of 40 years in excess of four years and so what path did you take to the designs you have today okay I'm all about fabric and scrap so it's just it has just evolved I'm afraid I just I do what I love I make what I love and it just happened someone caught me the overnight 20 year success which is actually a very good safe look I'm doing this for a long time I've owned a quilt store since 1999 and you're still currently yeah it's drive on a shop and still have a call strong as well in there my daughter Lucy runs that so she's the manager there and I've got fantastic staff some of them have been with me virtually all the way through so I can I can run away and play in Sisters Oregon and I leave the girls at home to do the work and I hear the class was a huge success I had several friends in that class that I visited today and that you might be coming back again I am I'm coming back next money for four days so don't anybody sign up and for me though I had a schedule problem with this one but next May I am definitely coming so you have a fabric line I do my current fabric line is called moving on and it's printed on and I am madly in love with it I designed for Moda so I've had four fabric lines with them now so I'm still a newbie with them uh-huh yeah in your latest book or my ladies I've only done one book with FW media phones and Porter called quilt lovely but I do self-published some little pattern booklets and my latest one is called Jenny from one block baboom Ching oh well I can't wait for the the quilt show today thank you and so we'll share that with the rest of the viewers okay thanks thank you thank you bye bye you you you you you ha

Channel: Quilt Roadies

Views: 25,823

Rating: 4.9480519 out of 5

Keywords: Jen Kingwell, Stitchin Post, Quilts, East of the Cascade Quilt Guild

Id: K17jHyohJP4

Length: 7min 53sec (473 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 12 2016