Featured Quilter

Linda S. Schmidt:

Exhibit of award winning, contemporary landscape quilts, and wearable art.

Showing August 5 - 10, 1997
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Couches Etc.
109 Kentucky Street

Reception Tuesday, August 5
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Couches Etc.
109 Kentucky Street

Quilting Autobiography:

* I am a prolific quilter and garment designer, and have been learning about them, making them, and teaching about them for over 17 years, using almost every technique there is.

* I have been doing talks, trunk shows and workshops at guilds throughout California for the last three years, showing over 50 quilts and garments in the course of my talk and trunk show entitled "Short Attention Span Quilting."

* I was a Fairfield Designer in 1994-95, and am currently working on a garment for their 1997-98 show. I also put on a fashion show entitled "Flamboyancy Rising," showing 35 of my own ensembles.

* Over the last ten years, I have received over 150 ribbons many of them Best in Show, Best in Class or Artist awards, at fairs, quilt shows, and art shows.

* I have won ribbons in quilt shows at Houston AIQA, Pacific International, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg Quilt Festival ,West Coast Quilter's, and the AQS Shows in Paducah, and participated in special invitational exhibitions at Expo V (in Lyons, France), AQS Fashion Shows at Paducah, and been part of the invitational exhibitions at these shows, as well.

* I have been the special lecturer at Empty Spools Conference at Asilomar and Sampler demonstrator at West Coast Quilter's Conference, and will be a featured artist at the Great Petaluma Quilt Show in 1997.

* My work has been shown at the Fairfield Art Show, Livermore Art Show, Concord Art Gallery, the San Jose Quilt Museum, and at the Hyde Gallery in Fremont.

* My quilts have appeared in several books, including: Joen Wolfrom's - Visual Dance; Charlotte Warr- Andersen's - Faces and Places; Katie Pasquini's -Fractured Landscapes; and Oxmoor House's - Great American Quilts Book IV.

* My work has also appeared in several magazines, including Quilter's Newsletter and Ladies Circle Patchwork A "Patchwork Profile" interview about my work was published in the August issue of McCall's Quilting, Quilter's Newsletter published my article "Tiny Trees" in their January/February 1997 issue, and American Quilter for Fall 1997 will contain my article 'The Giving Quilt"

* I was the President of Amador Valley Quilters for 1994-95 and am still a very active member and committee chair for quilt shows and upcoming events.

* I was a founding member of the Network for Wearable Art.

* I am an Alameda County Art Commissioner.

* I teach quilting at the Senior Center in Dublin, and have done for the last five years.

* I give classes at our local quilt shop, Going to Pieces, in landscape design and wearable art.

* Some quilts of mine that you may or may not recognize:

- Water of Life
- Winter Wolf
- Pentecost
- Point Lobos
- The Jumbly Wood
- Rites of Spring
- Celebrate the Material World
- Imagine Peace on Our Planet
- The Dawn of Time
- Catch the Falling Snow
- First Catch
- The Lord of the
- Rings-Revisited
- McArthur-Burney Falls
- Island Girl
- Prepare Ye the Way
- My Children

The bottom line is that there is nothing I like better than to talk to quilters about quilting. unless it is making quilts, myself. I have an eclectic taste in quilts and quilters, an insatiably inquiring mind and a sincere desire to help others learn what they need to know in order to do what needs to be done.