Guest Speaker: Julia McLeod
Website: www.juliamcleodquilts.com
Topic: Everything by the Cotton
Julia McLeod is a quilt maker, presenter, instructor, quilt judge and author living and working in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in making quilts from rescued textiles, particularly silks. Neckties, saris, kimonos and furnishing fabrics all find their way into her quilts.
Born and raised in England, Julia worked as a menswear textile designer in Yorkshire and Scotland, and on Savile Row, in the heart of London’s bespoke tailoring industry. She moved to New York City in the early 1990’s, and America has been her home ever since.
Julia enjoys lecturing and teaching on the subject of quilting-making with unusual and reclaimed textiles. Her first book, from C&T Publishing, is Patchwork Luxe: Qu‘ilts from Neckties, Kimonos and Sari Silks.
