{"id":6132,"date":"2018-10-19T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T00:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2018-10-19T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T00:58:23","slug":"meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alaskan Quilter Maria Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher, Maria Shell, will be traveling from <strong>Anchorage, Alaska<\/strong> to teach four classes at Road to California 2019:\nTuesday\/Wednesday: <strong>2301C \u2013 Making Prints Out of Solids<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2019\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/attachment\/ms\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6135\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MS-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher\" width=\"625\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\nThursday: <strong>4018C \u2013 Circle &amp; Curve Sampler<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2019\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/attachment\/ms4018c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6136\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MS4018c.jpg\" alt=\"Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher\" width=\"464\" height=\"696\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\nThursday Night: <strong>4068C \u2013 Artful Oven Mitts<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2019\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/attachment\/ms4068c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6137 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MS4068c-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a>\nFriday: <strong>5015C \u2013 Bits &amp; Pieces \u2013 Designing from the Scrap Bag<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2019\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/attachment\/ms5015c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6138\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MS5015c.jpg\" alt=\"Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher\" width=\"464\" height=\"696\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\nMaria Shell was drawn to sewing when she was 4 years old and hasn\u2019t stopped since. She had a Barbie Doll clothing business as a young girl and worked in the costume shop in college. Quilt making didn\u2019t come until 1999 when her family moved to Valdez, Alaska, which happens to be a very active quilt community. Maria\u2019s first workshop was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debbiescreativemoments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Debbie Caffery<\/a> Mystery Quilt and she has been making quilts ever since. Other quiltmakers that have inspired Maria\u2019s work are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iquilt.com\/tips-from-gwen-marston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gwen Marston<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancycrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy Crow<\/a>, and books by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulanadelstern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paula Nadelstern<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2019\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/attachment\/maria-shell-head-shot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6133\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maria-Shell-Head-Shot-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher\" width=\"497\" height=\"696\" \/><\/a>\nWhen Maria moved to Alaska, she designed a large studio so that her sons (who were young at the time) had plenty of room to horse around in the studio while she worked. Today, her studio includes a sewing station, an L-shaped cutting station, and a Gammil Classic Plus. What are Maria\u2019s favorite tools found in her studio? \u201cI cannot do without my 4\u2019\u2019 x 14\u2019\u2019 Omnigrid ruler, my Olfa straight handled 60mm rotary cutter, my <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/vendors\/how-sharp-are-your-quilting-scissors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kai scissors and snips,<\/a> and my Bernina sewing machine.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california-2019\/meet-alaskan-quilter-maria-shell\/attachment\/maria-shell-studio\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6134\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maria-Shell-Studio-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Alaskan Quilter and Quilt Teacher\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a>\nBesides quilting, Maria has been learning to knit for the past few years and says that \u201cI am a bit addicted to making socks.\u201d She also loves hiking and walking; trying out new plant based recipes; and reading or listening to books on tape.\nMaria started teaching quilt making almost as soon as she finished taking her first quilt workshop which means she has been teaching for about seventeen years. She started teaching nationally in 2015. Teaching quilt classes is a personal learning experience says Maria. It \u201cmakes me a better quilt-maker and a better teacher.\u201d\nRoad to California 2019 will be her first time at the show. She is hoping to enjoy all that Road has to offer\u2014as well as the famous sunny weather in January. Maria also wants her Road students to leave her classes knowing that \u201ceverything they need to be an <em>amazing quilter<\/em> exists inside of them.\u201d Beyond that, \u201cit is all about practice.\u201d\nTo learn more about Maria, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mariashell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her website<\/a>.\n&nbsp;\n&nbsp;]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-to-california-2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}