Meet A Modern Quilter: Heather Kinion with a trunk show of her modern quilts

quilty quilty is brought to you by Baby Lock sewing and long-arm machines baby lock for the love of sewing autofill autofill Italian thread perfectly suited for all your quilting projects Fairfield together we can make beautiful things free-spirit a new generation of creative and playful fabrics perfect for fashions home decor quilting crafting and more hobbles sewing cut it close with hovels Moda make something quilty with Moda fabrics thermo web manufacturer of heat and bond adhesives and new luxe interfacing x' proudly made in the USA hi out there welcome to quilty this is a meet a modern quilter episode and we are here with Heather Canyon yeah and again in Heather is a I think an expert Sohus would you consider yourself an expert I mean I've been sewing since I was about six or seven so I feel pretty confident yeah yes you're a confident sower and you've sewn things for quilty many times this has been been a hand in in the background making the magic happen and so we are going to talk to you about your quilts today okay about your evolution as a quilter sure tell me about this quilt that we have in front of us well this was my very first quilt I made it for a quilt for a class I was taking and that a friend of mine said who I used to work in costume shops because I sewed garments her forever haha with me said you should take a cool class there's this great quilt shop yes go there and take it quilt ology we used to film the show uncle Tommy that's how we met that is how we met small town so you took the class and this was a pattern called urban Amish yes this is their like 101 class I invented a ended up teaching that class awesome this was my first quilt I also took that class not together with you but I have an urban Amish as well it's a great first beginner pattern I still love this pattern oh it's a great pattern if you like fabrics cuz you just pick a bunch of fat quarters I've made about seven of these from baby size to Queen they go very very quickly um and then I'm noticing all these fabrics I mean there's there's K facet there's any Butler like old school Annie Butler 20 Butler that's another thing about like keeping your quilts you want to give a lot away but like your first quilts you know you might not want to give moy because sometimes they're not as good as this I think this is pretty good but it also is like a time capsule this is fabric you can't really get any yeah yeah no that's true some of these you can um but I have not seen in years right so this we have another one right true another urban Amish this one's from I think last year it's really cool and I actually used all the fat quarters that were that are made it up as decorations at our wedding with like white tablecloths and a fat quarter and a face flowers so you gave a fat quarter weight your bundle at your wedding no I I pulled back orders for my stash and like them on the table under the big vase of Baal okay I get it I get it but that would be great if you had a lot of pictures that your wedding stacks if that quarters true at every dinner plate because my quilt moms were invited to my wedding my mom doesn't quote but these women are my quilt moms they gave me very quilting presents from our wedding nice sorry husband yeah really I'll make you a quilt but speaking of your husband we're taking a look at this one next yeah tell me about this quilt um this one I've made with this the purpose of putting on our bed because I'd made a bunch of quilts that I given away except for that one and was like I need to keep one for me so there's this really cool benartex Michelle d'amour collection called habitat which I love cool and I used every single dandelion print from it oak or that plus the polka dot and and your husband had a hand in picking necessary sort of little chop I said pick some bolts of fabric with colors you like and he picked the grey on black and the black on gray sure sure you date sure you did but you know you might say how do you bring the color into my life you know yeah and you all got married just not too long ago about a year or a little more than you're awesome and now you're moving and all kinds of fun things happening um yeah that's another way to commemorate time in your life you know making a quilt is a is a time capsule I love this little holes in this quilt we may be seeing more of um what is this this is your design yes um actually does this I made a twin-sized version of it for a friend's nephew my my sort of my brother's best friend is like my fake little brother okay and they cook the his niece he wanted me to make a quilt for I'd made a quilt for his baby niece newborn but he had an older niece who hadn't been around when I started sharing and we did he she loved candy and the color blue were my directions and I didn't find novelty prints with candy that I inspire me huh so I decided to make candy shapes and glue so I actually call it Fatima's sweet tooth because remains Fatima it seems we do well you know you did a really nice job with the design challenge because when I think candy and blue I think like blue razz terrible you know but you took it in yeah but really finding colorful and bright and not too girly she's not too girly and I look at the back you know just flip it around here you really went to town and had fun yeah I used like leftover from it yeah I see this I mean you you really patch like I just yeah I just kept adding things until it fit of stuff I had leftovers for I love that um we you the majority of your quilts you give away correct a lot of them yeah when we talked about the show I was like you have quilts right now my friends who've commissioned baby quilts for me by either give them away or they pay me a little bit to write and it's just the way we do it I mean we can't we give these since way and this one is about to be given away too it's so fresh we don't even have the manual no binding yet nope but that'll that'll happen soon this is for a skid - yes it's for five-year-old girl it's for her big-girl bed she's gonna freak out she's gonna be snappy I think she'll be super excited when you I mean you're so good at making baby quilts what do you I mean how do you do that cuz I'm not that good at it like what you try to put yourself in my mind of the kid well I love bright colors first of all hey yo so that's easy and I don't know there's so many great um novelty prints I usually go to like Robert Kaufman or Michael Miller because they have great ones and I just picked like a novelty print and then all go from there and I like polka dots a whole lot so novelty prints and polka dots there were polka dots and the other ones those recur just cuz it's yeah they're so fun that's a good tip because um yeah kids you don't have to use novelty prints for a kid's quilt but it can be a focus fabric yeah for sure well Heather thank you so much for coming on the show and getting to know you as a quilter has been almost as fun as getting to know you Susan thank you tell me well we will sew together soon and we'll sew with you on quilty Thanks quilty is brought to you by Baby Lock sewing and long-arm machines baby lock for the love of sewing aurifil auto-fill italian thread quickly suited for all your quilting projects Fairfield together we can make beautiful things free spirit a new generation of creative and playful fabrics perfect for fashions home decor quilting crafting and more hobbles sewing cut it close with hovels Moda make something quilty with Moda fabrics thermo web manufacturer of heat and bond adhesives and new luxe interfacing proudly made in the USA quilty

Channel: Fons & Porter

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Keywords: modern quilt, modern quiting, Heather Kinion, Fons, Tonga Treat, batik, trunk show

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Length: 7min 22sec (442 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 12 2014