Interview with Maria Elkins and a Giveaway!
I'm excited to be a part of Lark book's blog hop for Martha Sielman's book: Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits. Martha filled the book with the work of over 100 quilters. There are also more in-depth features of 21 artists. One of those artists is Maria Elkins . I've been an admirer and follower of Maria's work ever since I first saw her on Quilting Arts TV in 2009. She has inspired me in many ways through the years. I am honored to be able to share my recent interview with Maria and then to give one lucky reader a copy of this book! Many Art Quilters come to the medium through traditional quilting and as you like to reference traditional quilts in your art quilts, w ere you a traditional quilter before you started creating art quilts and if so what led you to making art quilts? No, I've only made two or three traditional quilts. I was first introduced to traditional quilts in the 1970's. There was a natio...