{"id":6810,"date":"2019-09-20T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2019-09-20T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:39:49","slug":"meet-road-2020-teacher-pat-delaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/20\/meet-road-2020-teacher-pat-delaney\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road 2020 Teacher Pat Delaney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quilting opened\nan entire new world for Pat Delaney. She has been fortunate to create, teach,\ntravel, and be inspired by fabric and thread ever since she started quilting\nabout 20 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beginning\nwith doll clothes, Pat had made clothing ever since she was five years old. As a\nfashion design graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, Pat had plenty of\nsewing experience but somehow \u201cmissed the whole quilting world.\u201d She began\nteaching classes in her home to friends within a year and a half after learning\nto quilt and then starting teaching at major shows shortly after that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorful\nQuilts that are Quilted on Domestic Machines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Color is a\nmain focus for Pat and most often a color plan is her quilt\u2019s beginning. She is\nknown for very bright, vibrant, color rich quilts. All of her quilts have been\npieced and quilted on her home machine. Recently she purchased a sit-down long\narm and it has been put to good use, but she still loves quilting on her\nregular machine. Pat says, \u201cIt thrills me to teach on a domestic machine and it\nis just wonderful to see a beginner light up when she realizes it\u2019s possible to\nquilt the quilt herself! My classes are all about taking stress out of the\nprocess and enjoying the time spent creating a one-of-a-kind item for someone\nspecial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat\u2019s Home\nStudio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pat\u2019s Studio\nis in the basement of her home in Massachusetts. There is only one tiny window,\nso she must pay special attention to providing lots of balanced lighting from\ncolor corrected bulbs that are perfect for matching fabrics, etc. She also has\nan adjacent room that she calls the \u201clittle kitchen.\u201d It has cabinets, a sink,\nand a microwave for quick snacks during some \u201cmuch-needed breaks and for\nprojects that need water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Her favorite\nparts of her studio are her collections<\/strong>. She has toy sewing machines,\nminiature working machines, and family tomato pin cushions. Even though she is not\na hand sewer, she still enjoys collecting sewing tools such as thimbles, sweet\ngrass items, and sewing kits. Having her \u201cstash\u201d out, color-coded, and visible\nis also enjoyable and inspiring for Pat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Quilting\nInspiration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Where else does\nPat get inspiration for her quilt designs? \u201cOnce I began quilting, I just\nwanted to devour all aspects of the process. Every magazine and book I came\nacross was studied and opened a new world for me. Unlike many quilters, I had\nno family history to draw upon and gained most of my instruction and\nunderstanding from books. I was inspired by so many women and their quilts.\nOnce the idea of attending quilt shows came onto my radar, I tried to take a\nclass with each and every quilt celebrity I could find. Harriet Hargrave,\nSharon Schamber, Dianne Gaudynski, Nancy Crow, and Sue Nickels were just a few\nof my heroes. Each of them had something new to teach me and for me to learn. I\nstill love quilt classes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat at Road\nto California 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Road 2020\nwill be the first time Pat has attended Road to California. While she has never\npersonally attended the show, a few of her quilts have!! They were juried into the\nshow in the past and she has won some ribbons.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is \u201creally\nexcited to travel across the country and connect with a whole new group of\nquilters in California.\u201d Pat will be teaching 4 classes at Road to California\n2020-25th<\/sup> Anniversary Show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4010C \u2013\nQuilt The Mini on Thursday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

5023C \u2013\nFills, Fancies, And Feathers on Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

6009C \u2013\nReady, Set, Sew! On Saturday. In this class, Pat will share her knowledge and\ntechniques of award-winning quilting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And  7009C \u2013 Building A Visual Vocabulary which\nfocuses on the design process of quilt making<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All of Pat\u2019s classes will have Bernina Q20<\/a> and Bernina 700<\/a> sewing machines. Students will split their time on both machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Pat Delaney, please visit her website, Crabtree Lane Studio.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quilting opened an entire new world for Pat Delaney. She has been fortunate to create, teach, travel, and be inspired by fabric and thread ever since she started quilting about 20 years ago. Beginning with doll clothes, Pat had made clothing ever since she was five years old. As a fashion design graduate of Massachusetts […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"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\/6810","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=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}