{"id":30,"date":"2010-10-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/road-to-california\/terry-waldron\/"},"modified":"2010-10-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:00:00","slug":"terry-waldron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/terry-waldron\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Waldron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tTerry Waldron<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terry is teaching 3010, 4009, 5010, 6013, 7017<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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Matt: How long have you been quilting? What made you begin quilting?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Terry: I\u2019ve been quilting since 1995. I played tennis then, and one day my partner told me that she was not going to be playing with us for 6 weeks. When I asked why, she said she was going to take quilt lessons. I said, \u201cWhat\u2019s a quilt!\u201d I really did say that! Then I walked into the quilt shop she told me about, fell instantly in love with all the cloth, and signed up for a class with the wonderful Blanche Young. I made my first quilt in the next 6 days while teaching high school English in the daytime! It was a queen-sized quilt, and I was hooked! I even liked ironing the fabric! <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: Do you have a quilting studio? How big and is there anything unique that you keep in your studio?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: Yes, if you consider a guest room to be a studio! It has a full bathroom, though, and a perfect place to iron, AND my sewing machine is right by an upstairs window so I can see the trees and the hills, listen to the neighbor kids play in the cul de sac, and watch a Cary Grant movie as I create! The only thing I wish I had is a maid to help me keep it neat and straightened! <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What do you consider your quilting \u201cspecialty\u201d or what makes you unique in the quilting world?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: Well, I have a degree in art education, and I taught high school art classes for many years before changing to English so I really love teaching composition and design. I love two things: working completely by hand WITHOUT patterns from beginning to end, AND I love to do landscapes with my own cutting technique that I wrote about called \u201cRough Cut.\u201d It makes a landscape or a seascape look REAL! <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What is your favorite color schemes to work with?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: I don\u2019t have \u201ccolor schemes,\u201d actually. I use the colors that each piece calls for. BUT I have a secret about color that all artists know \u2013 you MUST know each color\u2019s complement! You probably know that without darkness, we wouldn\u2019t know what light is. Well, for instance, if you don\u2019t add purple in some form to a predominately yellow composition, then the yellow isn\u2019t as yellow! Remember that your elementary teacher probably taught you the color wheel a long time ago. What is most important about that color wheel is to know what each color\u2019s opposite is. They attract! <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What books or articles have you written?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: I\u2019ve written an article for the AQS magazine \u201cAmerican Quilter\u201d called \u201cRough Cut.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

I\u2019ve also written two chapters in Jamie Fingal\u2019s book <\/span>Embellished Mini-Quilts: Creative Little Works of Art<\/span><\/u>. BUT, my next endeavor is to write my own book!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What do you do while you quilt? Do you listen to music?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: When I am working on a piece, I am usually listening to an old movie on TV, or I\u2019m listening to jazz, or sometimes just listening to nature right outside my window. But when there is a Cary Grant movie on\u2026 I\u2019m inspired and do my very BEST work!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What is your quilting inspiration?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: My inspiration is certainly nature. It\u2019s important to me to look as closely as I can at EVERYTHING! Nearly every morning when I go outside, I see Mount Baldy, and it\u2019s almost like seeing an old friend. Then there are egrets that often fly over my car when I drive near home. But the person who inspired me most is the work of the great Japanese artist Ayako Miyawaki. I bought her book from Kogi Wada at my first quilt show. It\u2019s written in Japanese so I can\u2019t read a word of it, but I still look to her book to inspire me. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What is the funniest moment you have had happen while you were teaching?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

T: Well, I don\u2019t want to say it in writing\u2026 BUT, I might just tell it in my classes! Stay tuned\u2026<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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M: What was the best class you have ever taken?<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Hands down, that would be the two classes I took with Joan Colvin. Both classes were 4-day classes, and I will never forget them. Joan, just by her wonderful peacefulness, created a magic that filled the room as she spoke. It was almost like being in a trance! After she finished, everyone in the class would sort of float over to their design wall, and amazingly beautiful work would just seem to create itself for each student in the room. I miss Joan Colvin, and I\u2019m sure that everyone who was lucky enough to learn from her feels the same way.<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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