Instructors:
2. Julie BraggIn 1975 I learned how to quilt at my church quilters group in Iowa. We met once a week from 9-4, brought a sack lunch and quilted other women's tops to earn money for different church projects. My first two projects were baby quilts for our two children, Jennifer and Andrew. In 1978 my husband Dave and I move our family back to his home town, Wellington, Oh, home of the famous artist Archibald Willard who painted the "Spirit of '76" for the 1876 centennial celebration. I then made my first appliquéd quilt for our new home and have been quilting ever since. I love to hand quilt and appliqué.
Traditional and reproduction antique quilts are my favorite quilting
projects. For sixteen years I designed and help coordinate the annual raffle quilt made by Wellington Woman's League as a fund raiser. In 1995 I joined Lorain County Piecemakers quilt guild and have enjoyed meeting other quilters who love quilts as much as I do. I started my pattern company in 2000 and now have eleven patterns featured on my website, http://www.spiritof76quilts.com/ . Researching old traditional patterns and incorporating ideals from them into my own quilt designs is what I enjoy most. I've taught at the NEORQC Get-A-Way for the last three years and my most recent highlight is looking forward to being published in the summer issue of "Quilt" magazine. Being a three year breast cancer survivor I've tried to prioritize my commitments and quilting projects in order to enjoy life to the fullest.
Special Awards/Recognition:
City Folk Festival, Dayton, Ohio, June 2000, Twenty-two hand-selected
Ohio, traditional quilters displayed and lectured on their quilts during
the weekend Festival.
Quilt Name: "Whig's Defeat"
Appeared in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, (QNM #316)
"Best of Show", at Lorain County Fair: 1996 and 2nd place at Farm Park.
Kirkland, Ohio; 1998 "People's Choice at Lorain County Metro Parks Quilt
Show, Lorain Ohio; 1995
Quilt Name: "Snow Storm" (White on white wholecloth)
"Best of Show", at Lorain County Fair; 1993
"People's Choice at Lorain County Metro Parks Quilt Show, Lorain Ohio;
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Quilt Name: "O Christmas Tree"
"Better Homes and Garden" 1st place award at Ohio State Fair, 1989, for
pieced quilt. This quilt was then hung at the 1989 International Quilt
Festival in Houston, Texas.
Several blue ribbons at the Lorain County Fair. 1980-1995
E-mail Julie Bragg @ julie@quiltescape.com
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