{"id":8659,"date":"2021-09-14T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2021-09-14T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:24:29","slug":"welcome-back-david-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/14\/welcome-back-david-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back David Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

David Taylor <\/a>will be teaching three classes at Road to California 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Handwork Classes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 0002C \u2013 Pictoral Hand Appliqu\u00e9: Little Chickadee on Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And 2017C \u2013 Floral Hand Appliqu\u00e9: Sweet Pea on Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Taylor will also be teaching 1018C \u2013 Precision Machine Piecing: What A Flake! Sewing Machines from Juki will be provided for this class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life Long Love of Fabric<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

David Taylor was raised in Peterborough, New Hampshire, one of six children: three boys and three girls just \u201clike the Brady Bunch.\u201d His mother \u201ctied\u201d quilts while David was growing up but as a single mom with six kids, she didn\u2019t have much free time to devote to quilting. David first focused on apparel construction. In 1998, a longtime friend who knew of David\u2019s life-long love of fabric, suggested he try quilting. He was reluctant at first as he didn\u2019t want to cut up his \u201cprecious fabric collection.\u201d Since then, he has never looked back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stitching Past Adversity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, a gas explosion and subsequent fire destroyed David Taylor\u2019s home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Since the fire gutted the living room and the sewing loft, David was without his tools and supplies for over nine months. Both of his Berninas were melted; his serger was gone; rulers were twisted and turned and his Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen<\/a> was a major loss. Needless to say, it was a very devastating experience.\u00a0 David recalled that ever since the fire, for him, life got both \u201ca little easier and a little harder at the same time.\u201d He was able to slow down, take long walks, read, and do jigsaw puzzles to occupy his thoughts while he rebuilt his studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Familiar Face at Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Taylor has been a frequent teacher at road, overseeing classes in applique techniques and long arm quilting using the Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen sit down longarm machine, which uses the same skills as a regular sewing machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, David was one of three judges<\/a> for that year\u2019s Quilt Contest. The Best of Show chosen that year was Garden Variety Sampler, made and quilted by Janet Stone.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because he has never taken a quilting class, David believes that the best way to learn is to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice and makes a lot of mistakes. In addition, he believes that quilting \u201cshould be a team sport,\u201d He recommends joining a guild or a group and getting together with like-minded \u201cfabric fondlers.\u201d And if there isn\u2019t a group where you live, David says, \u201cStart one.\u201d For David, there is no greater satisfaction than \u201cseeing a student\u2019s face light up when they realize they CAN do this!\u201d  He hopes his students will learn that if they create from their heart, the rest will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

David Taylor will be teaching three classes at Road to California 2022. Two Handwork Classes:  0002C \u2013 Pictoral Hand Appliqu\u00e9: Little Chickadee on Sunday And 2017C \u2013 Floral Hand Appliqu\u00e9: Sweet Pea on Tuesday David Taylor will also be teaching 1018C \u2013 Precision Machine Piecing: What A Flake! Sewing Machines from Juki will be provided […]<\/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-8659","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\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8664,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions\/8664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}