{"id":6228,"date":"2018-11-27T23:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T06:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2018-11-27T23:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T06:13:53","slug":"piecing-is-michele-crawfords-specialty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/piecing-is-michele-crawfords-specialty\/","title":{"rendered":"Piecing Is Michele Crawford's Specialty"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t1005C \u2013 Crumb Quilted Wheels Quilt\u00a0<\/strong>on Monday\"Piecing<\/a>\nAnd four evening, handwork piecing classes\n3067C \u2013 Explore the World of English Paper Piecing: Hexagons<\/strong>\u00a0on Wednesday Night\"Piecing<\/a>\n4073C Explore the World of Paper Piecing: Jewels\u00a0<\/strong>on Thursday Night\"Piecing<\/a>\n5062C Explore the World of Paper Piecing: Diamonds\u00a0\"Piecing<\/a><\/strong>\n6061C Explore the World of Paper Piecing: Curved\u00a0\"Piecing<\/a><\/strong>\nIn addition,\u00a0Michele\u2019s company, Flower Box Quilts<\/a>, will have a booth on the vendor floor.\"Michele<\/a>\nMichele Crawford has a long history with sewing, crafting, and pattern making. Since the age of 9, she has always had a needle and thread in her hands. Stamped cross stitch, crewel, crochet, knitting, embroidery and sewing clothes were her passion. Michele taught herself to sew. Her first projects were sewn on her grandmother\u2019s featherweight sewing machine. Michele’s first business was making woven potholders on a loom and selling them in her neighborhood. While in high school, she wanted to be a fashion designer and go to New York City to school. She ended up being an elementary school teacher, getting married, and starting a family. Later, she began her life as a self-employed designer and business owner.\nMichele\u2019s first business was Cross \u2018n Quilt. Started in 1986, Michele designed and sold her patterns combining counted cross stitch and quilting. Through this experience, Michele has created over 4,500 published sewing, needlework and quilting designs in over 40 different publications. She has worked with over 35 fabric, thread and batting companies to date.\nIn 2002, a few quilting magazines started offering kits for the projects in their magazines featuring new fabric collections, and that was the start of Michele\u2019s internet business, Flower Box Quilts<\/a>. By 2008, she began designing her own quilt patterns to sell on her website as Flower Box Quilts, and also offered other quilt fabric kits exclusive to her site.\"Michele<\/a>\nThe Flower Box Quilts booth is known as the \u201chappy booth.\u201d She likes to showcase many different piecing styles and techniques to inspire her customers. Featured in her booth are seasonal and non-seasonal fabrics as well as over 100 of her original quilt patterns including those for quilts of all sizes, runners, place mats, pillows, Christmas ornaments and tree skirts, and other decorative items. She still likes to combine counted cross stitch with quilting and of course offers her piecing handwork hexagons.\"Michele<\/a>\nMichele is looking forward to teaching her five classes, as well as sharing her quilt piecing philosophy:\u00a0\u201cWe cannot achieve perfection but we can strive for excellence.\u201d<\/strong>\nThere are several piecing tips<\/strong> that Michele likes to share. One is Don\u2019t wash fabric before piecing. <\/em>She believes that the finishes help achieve a \u201ccleaner\u201d cut with a rotary cutter. Some other tips: Iron as you go; It\u2019s OK to sew over pins; and Use 100% Cotton thread. <\/em>To learn more of Michele\u2019s tips, you\u2019ll just have to take one of her classes!!\nMichele is looking forward to being at Road 2019. \u201cI LOVE the amazing and positive energy of all the quilters \u2013 vendors \u2013 staff at Road! The extreme excitement of being at the cutting edge of quilting and being inspired by so many incredibly talented and creative people is mind boggling, humbling, and fabulous!\u201d\nTo learn more about Michele and Flower Box Quilts, visit her website<\/a>.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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