Carolyn Mangler - March 9 meeting

 



 

The Estes Valley Quilt Guild proudly presents local quilter, Carolyn Mangler, landscape artist, as our guest speaker on March 9, 2016. Carolyn’s program "A Simple Approach to Landscape Quilts" will be a hands-on program and demonstration. Each participant attending the meeting will go home with the start of a small landscape quilt and enough information to finish your sample at home. Carolyn will share many tips and techniques on how she chooses her subject matter and how to choose fabrics to create a striking quilt. She will also share samples of her landscape quilts. The materials for your sample will be provided. Please bring a pair of small-bladed scissors, straight pins, a 12" ruler and a Sharpie marker.　

Carolyn has always enjoyed photography. She spent many years photographing her family before moving to Estes Park. When she and her husband, Dan moved to Estes Park in 2000, she found another source of photographic inspiration: the mountains. Very quickly she realized that her love for photography and her love for fabric could translate into landscape quilts. Carolyn's mother introduced her to sewing at an early age, and she made clothes for herself and her children. Carolyn’s initial love of quilting started back in the 1980’s when her girls decided that mom making their clothes was no longer "cool". Her first quilts incorporated a traditional log cabin pattern and a trip around the world pattern. When she moved to Estes Park she was fortunate enough to be hired at Mountain Lady Quilt Shop and was introduced to beautiful quilt fabrics. She made several traditional quilts before branching out into art quilts, specifically landscape quilts, which offer the great "lack of precision" that fits her quilting style better.