{"id":8609,"date":"2021-08-13T20:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2021-08-13T20:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T03:44:49","slug":"road-2022-teacher-annie-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/13\/road-2022-teacher-annie-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Road 2022 Teacher Annie Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Annie Smith<\/a> will be teaching 4 Quilt Classes and 1 Design Class at Road to California 2022<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, 2018C \u2013 A Is For Applique (Pfaff machines will be provided)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Wednesday, 3014C \u2013 Build Your Own Color Sense \u2013 A Design Class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday, 4015C \u2013 The 1:10 Quilt (Machines provided by Bernina)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Friday, 5014C \u2013 Aurifil Thread Matters (Machines provided by Bernina)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on Saturday, 6014C \u2013 The “A” Word By Machine (Machines provided by Bernina)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Garment Sewing to Quilting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Annie Smith came at quilting from a garment sewing and design background. She made all of her clothes in high school and had a cottage industry sewing for her friends\u2019 moms in college. In 1980, Annie decided to make a quilt for her first baby which she sewed all by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annie shares that she has two areas of expertise: Fabric selection and Machine Applique<\/strong>. From teaching and observing her students struggling to find the right fabrics for their quilts, she realized that no one had ever taught them how to choose the fabric. Says Annie, \u201cEveryone thinks that they have a problem with color — and what we really have is a lack of confidence in choosing fabrics from what the manufacturers give us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding her knack with machine applique, Annie Smith took a weeklong class with Sue Nickels and was hooked. She just loved the technique that Sue taught. Annie proceeded to take two years off from teaching her own classes to hone her machine applique skills, which led to her designing quilts and coats and eventually writing two books for C&T Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Space<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When Annie Smith moved to Texas from California, she went from sewing spaces of 12 x 20 and 12 x 3 to just one 10 x 12 room with a walk-in closet. She set it up exactly how she thought the layout would work best, and after two years, she realized that it wasn\u2019t working the way she thought; it made her feel claustrophobic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She set out to reorganize her whole workspace, complete with new storage options. Annie relies a lot on Ikea, the Container Store, and repurposing. Now, she loves her sewing space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Annie\u2019s favorite quilting tools are her Bernina sewing machine and Serger (she is a Bernina Ambassador), her design wall, and her Clover fork pins. And Annie uses the CORA App<\/a> to organize her patterns and garment fabrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching at Road 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since 1984, Annie Smith has taught at every quilt shop in the San Francisco Bay area when she lived there. She has been a national\/international teacher since 2006. Says Annie, \u201cI love to teach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her favorite part of teaching is \u201cthe people I meet and the experiences that I have with them that really makes me the most happy. I love to share what I know about quilting to help quilters expand their knowledge, but I love getting to know them by the small conversations we have while they work. Many of my students have become dear friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie hopes that her students at Road will experience exactly what they came for: to learn something new so they can grow their skills and think of things in a new way, to feel a part of the class community, and be inspired by what she has to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about Annie Smith, please visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annie Smith will be teaching 4 Quilt Classes and 1 Design Class at Road to California 2022: On Tuesday, 2018C \u2013 A Is For Applique (Pfaff machines will be provided) On Wednesday, 3014C \u2013 Build Your Own Color Sense \u2013 A Design Class On Thursday, 4015C \u2013 The 1:10 Quilt (Machines provided by Bernina) On […]<\/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-8609","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\/8609","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=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}