{"id":98,"date":"2008-06-12T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/road-to-california\/2009-faculty-debora-konchinsky\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T17:33:00","slug":"2009-faculty-debora-konchinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/2009-faculty-debora-konchinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Faculty – Debora Konchinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tDebora Konchinsky, Brienigsville, PA<\/span>
www.critterpat.com<\/a>\n\nDebora is a vendor at the show, Critter Pattern Works and will be teaching a class, “Get Over Your Fear of Machine Appliqu\u00e9.”\n\nMore about Debora:<\/span>\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> How many years have you been quilting?
Debora: <\/span> I\u2019ve been quilting since my son was 5 when I took a class in 1977. Everything was done by hand in the class. The following year we moved from Kansas to Ohio and I taught the class. My students didn\u2019t have time to do things by hand, so I taught myself how to machine appliqu\u00e9 (before WonderUnder was invented) and then taught the class.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> What motivated you to start quilting?
Debora: <\/span> I couldn\u2019t find any appliqu\u00e9 patterns I wanted to do. I have a BFA degree in Fabric Design and I didn\u2019t want to make appliqu\u00e9s that had as much detail as a cookie cutter.

Carolyn:<\/span> Where have you traveled in your quilting teaching career?
Debora: <\/span> I\u2019ve taught in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and England\u2026places where they speak English.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> What is the most, unusual, frightening, funny, frustrating experience you have had in your quilting career?
Debora: <\/span> I was teaching a small group of people how to use fusible, so they could appliqu\u00e9. The first person glued the appliqu\u00e9 to the pattern, not to the background. I held the example up for all to see. \u201cDon\u2019t do this.\u201d They all did exactly what I told them not to do. It was Murphy\u2019s Law in action.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> Does anyone else in your family quilt?
Debora: <\/span> No. My mother could mend. My maternal grandmother made clothes for my teddies. My paternal grandmother had quilts on the beds but I never saw her sew.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> What is your birth order? – Only child, first, second, third, or ??
Debora: <\/span> I was the 2nd child of two.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> Where did you grow up?
Debora: <\/span> Philadelphia\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> Do you have children \u2013 grandchildren?
Debora: <\/span> I have one son and seven grandcats. They scatter when I come over to visit.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> Do you have any pets? \"\"<\/a>
Debora: <\/span> We have two cats right now. We\u2019ve had as many as six cats at one time and two dogs, a Border Collie and Irish Setter. We adopted Cali (short for Calico, as in fabric and cat) in December 1999.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> What is your favorite food?
Debora: <\/span> Fried tomatoes with milk gravy and corn on the cob.\n\nCarolyn:<\/span> What would be on your \u201cbucket list\u201d (like the movie) if you could do anything and money were no object?
Debora: <\/span> Figure out landscape design. Explore Peru (oh, to see the very old and complicated fabrics!). Win a Best in Show. Design and make some mosaics. (My father made 3-D mosaics. I have a pelican he made with a 2 litre soda bottle inside.)

Carolyn: <\/span>Do you have any other hobbies besides quilting?
Debora: <\/span> I love making necklaces with glass lamp work beads shaped like animals. I collect animal beads. It doesn\u2019t take up much space and doesn\u2019t cost a lot. It is fun.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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