{"id":4496,"date":"2016-11-28T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2016-11-28T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:10:59","slug":"meet-road-2017-faculty-jennifer-rapacki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/meet-road-2017-faculty-jennifer-rapacki\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road 2017 Faculty Jennifer Rapacki"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t4017R\u00a0 Charm Pack Table Runner\"jr-charm-pack-table-runner\"<\/a><\/strong>\nOn Friday 5018R<\/strong> and Sunday 7011R<\/strong>, \u00a0Weave that Quilt Background\"jr-5018r-weave-that-quilt-background\"<\/a><\/strong>\nAnd two half day classes utilizing technology:\nSaturday Morning, 6017R\u00a0 Fractal That! Quilt Design on an iPad<\/strong>\u00a0\"jr-6017r-fractal-that-quilt-design-on-an-ipad\"<\/a>\nSaturday Afternoon, 6018R\u00a0 Print That!\u00a0 With Photoshop Elements\"6018r\"<\/a><\/strong>\nJennifer Rapacki learned to sew as a young girl, starting out sewing clothing. Eventually she got into couture techniques for the clothes she made for work as well as tailoring jackets for her husband.\u00a0 As the workplace became more casual, Jennifer turned to quilting as a way to continue working with fabric.\u00a0\u00a0 Her first quilt was actually made in 1983 from a log cabin pattern kit of calico prints.\u00a0\u00a0 She didn\u2019t know to do the binding and no fabric was provided for it in the kit, so she turned the backing to the front (\u201cwe didn\u2019t have YouTube back then\u201d). Of course, today, Jennifer knows many ways to bind a quilt!!\"jennifer_rapacki\"<\/a>\nJennifer does most of her work in a quilt studio space she owns in Ventura, California because she and her husband live on a sail boat in Channel Island Harbor. She finds inspiration for her quilting \u201cjust about everywhere.\u201d\u00a0 On a recent trip to Spain and Portugal, she was continually seeing \u201cquilt designs\u201d on the buildings and sidewalks.\u00a0 In Lisbon, she knew she was probably the only tourist continually stopping to take photos of the cobblestone sidewalks. One design is posted on her Instagram<\/a>\u00a0that she thought would make a great border.\nA brass Stiletto is Jennifer\u2019s favorite quilting tool. She says it\u2019s her \u201c3rd finger.\u201d How did Jennifer start incorporating technology in to her quilt designs and techniques? It began in 2008 when she started playing with inkjet printing on fabric on her home printer and developed a Photoshop Elements<\/em> class that she taught at the local quilt shop.\u00a0 It was after her quilt guild in Santa Maria asked her to speak about what she was doing with inkjet printing on fabric and Electric Quilt in 2010, that she started offering her lecture about Modern Technology for Quilters <\/em>to other quilt guilds and teaching workshops.\"malibuonfire\"<\/a>\nShe began using an iPad for classes she was teaching at quilt shows because she wanted to reach a broader quilting audience who didn\u2019t necessarily want to lug around a laptop to a show.\u00a0 Plus, according to Jennifer, \u201cthe maturity of the iPad has brought more capability to the apps available.\u00a0 I am continually looking at what apps are available to see if they can be applied to quilting design.\u201d\nOne of Jennifer\u2019s best quilting tips is how she makes stitched mitered corner binding (joining binding in the corners).\u00a0 Originally used for her custom inkjet printed binding, it also allows for changing colors in the corners along with being great to use on small quilts where it would be difficult to join binding in the middle of a side.\u00a0 Quilting Arts Magazine plans to publish Jennifer\u2019s article about this technique in the Feb\/Mar 2017 issue.\"stars_that_i_see-lg-2\"<\/a>\nWhat does Jennifer like most about teaching? \u201cLearning from my students.\u00a0 I think I learn as much from them as they do from me.\u00a0 I especially like when they take the technique I\u2019m teaching and go in a direction I hadn\u2019t thought of.\u201d\nTo learn more about Jennifer, please visit her Facebook Page<\/a>.\n \n ]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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