Quilting Is My Therapy: Behind the Stitches with Angela Walters
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Angela Walters
Angela Walters has quilted for fabric designers, authors, and pattern makers and has been published in numerous books and magazines. While she loves traditional quilting, her niche is quilting innovative designs on modern quilts. Look for Angela on YouTube as the Midnight Quilter. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri. quiltingismytherapy.com
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Quilting Is My Therapy - Angela Walters
INTRODUCTION
There is nothing quite like running your hand over a quilt. The feel of the quilting is like music to my soul. Quilting provides a specific function—holding the layers together—but it is so much more than that. It enhances the quilt top by adding another layer of art to the quilt. Quilting can bring out secondary patterns, tell a story, or add a pop of color. Most of the time, quilting plays off of the quilt top. But sometimes, like in this book, it can take center stage.
Quilting can bring out secondary patterns, tell a story, or add a pop of color.
I have compiled some of my favorite quilts that show the range of my designs. As you look through the book, I hope that you will be inspired, not intimidated. You might notice that my quilting isn’t perfect—that’s because quilting isn’t supposed to be. As you work on your quilt tops, don’t strive for perfection; strive for completion, remembering that a finished quilt is always better than a perfectly quilted one.
Sprinkled among the photographs are little bits about my journey from fast-food manager (true story) to professional machine quilter. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed reliving my journey.
STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING
Have you ever heard of the phrase, Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes
? It pretty much sums up my quilting career. Like most professionals in the quilting industry, I didn’t set out to be a professional quilter. It’s not as though that option is in the list of potential careers.
I didn’t grow up with family members that quilted, and I was never crafty—well, at least in the sense of making things. In fact, I failed the sewing machine test in eighth grade home economics … twice. All I had to do was identify the parts of sewing machine; I didn’t have to actually use it! If I am being honest, the only reason I passed the third time was because the teacher finally took pity on me and helped suggest
some of the answers. So when I say, If I can do it, anyone can,
you can take me at