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Judy Allen's Biography
Familiar with every feature of the quilted feather,
Judy focuses a great deal of her workshop
instruction on this popular motif. A Longarm
quilter, trainer, pattern designer, and author, her
quilting experience is as multifaceted as her unique
feather designs and techniques.
Before quilting, Judy was a china painter. She
incorporated her painting skills, notably the Curved
Cross Hatching techniques and her knowledge of color
placement into her quilting. Judy's Quick Quilting,
her longarm quilting business, has been in operation
since 1990. She hosts five-day training workshops in
her home or on-site on the fundamentals of the
feather design, basic to advanced machine skills for
planned or freestyle quilting, as well as design
placement and customer relations, thus equipping the
new quilter to enter right into the machine quilting
industry.
Judy is a native of
northern New York near the tip of Lake Ontario, just
below Canada. Her love of quilting started with
piecing in 1983 and was expanded in 1991 by the
purchase of a longarm quilting machine. As a
representative for American Professional Quilting
Systems, Judy has focused on her love of quilting
feather designs, the ease of planning design
placement, creating the various design shapes to fit
the space, and how to transfer them to the quilt
top.
Traveling for the company and offering
training classes allowed her talents to grow and she
became a pattern designer for Golden Threads, an
author for American Quilter's Society with her book
"The Art of Feather Quilting" and the opportunity to
teach at national shows. Judy is also proud to
be the originator and promoter of the "Curved Cross
Hatching" techniques now being used so extensively
in the longarm quilting industry. This elegant
addition to the feather designs gives a beautiful
dimension to the motif and surrounding areas,
bringing greater interest and value to the quilt.
Judy was delighted to appear on QNN TV with Jodie
Davis as well as Quilt Central TV.
Judy offers a unique Curved Cross Hatching
stencil as well as a set of machine quilting
rulers called, "Judalator's" that eases the
quilter's ability to accurately quilt the
feather shapes themselves, the Curved Cross
Hatching lines, and most any curve you might
wish to quilt on the quilting machine. By
creating their own feather designs, the student
learns to not only quilt them better but to be
very unique in their own style of placement and
pattern usage. Judy's blue ribbon style and
techniques give the quilter an even higher
standard of professional machine quilting and in
valuing the process, her techniques ease the
quilter into the abilities they need.
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