A Lecture Class, FL03 \u2013 Art Quilts From Photographs, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n F130 \u2013 “Make A Leap For It” Fused Art With Mixed Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in the mid-1980\u2019s, Sandra Mollen\u2019s family rented a house whose previous tenant was a quilter. After living in the hose for a month, a quilting magazine showed up in Sandra\u2019s mailbox for the previous tenant. As Sandra thumbed through the pages, she realized how much she loved the quilts, and within 3 months, Sandra bought her first sewing machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sandra Mollon joined a quilt guild in the late 1980\u2019s in Maryland. She entered one of her first quilts in their local show. During a set up meeting, Sandra overheard someone call it \u201cugly.\u201d Needless to say, Sandra \u201cwas pretty devasted and decided that I would try harder before the next show (two years). Deciding that the Baltimore Album Quilts were the most beautiful, in my mind anyway, I set out to learn to applique. Two years later I won the viewer\u2019s choice ribbon in that very same guild. I worked in that style for nearly three decades, eventually winning a purchase award at Spring Paducah in 2019 and have a quilt in that style in the National Quilt Museum.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n After many years of hand applique work, Sandra was ready to try something new. She discovered that National and International quilt shows were bringing in whole new approaches to textile art. Sandra decided to join in and has been making fused raw edge art quilts from photographs ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Sandra began sewing, her space was really the dining room table when the family wasn\u2019t eating around it. Eventually, she took over a bedroom when her oldest left for college. When Sandra outgrew that space, she jokingly suggested to her husband that they buy a new house. And 9 years ago\u2014they did!! Their newest home had a large \u2018game\u2019 room with a pool table in it. Sandra kicked out the pool table and set up her dream studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sandra Mollon\u2019s sewing room houses the tools she can\u2019t work without: her Bernina Q20, assorted scissors, fabric, thread, and Misty Fuse adhesive. During the pandemic, Sandra learned how to use \u201cZoom\u201d\u2014something she had not even heard of prior to 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sandra Mollon is looking forward to teaching at Road@Home, especially her lecture, \u201cArt Quilts from Photographs.\u201d She can\u2019t wait to have \u201ca large audience of people who can see what I do. I hope I inspire others to reach for their dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Sandra](\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Baker-Beach-Mollon-Sandra-L_-Full-Sandra-Mollon-1.jpeg\")
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