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quilter’s profile
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been creating with whatever I could get my hands on,” says self-taught quilter Virginia Cole. The artist, a stay-at-home mom who lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, has been quilting for 13 years. Three years ago, she began focusing on miniature quilt collages created with antique buttons, fabric scraps, vintage papers, and old photographs. The name of her studio, Galloping Pony, is based on a quilter’s theory that if you can’t see a mistake in a quilt from a galloping horse, it doesn’t really matter. “Because I do miniatures, I changed the ‘horse’ part of the theory to ‘pony.’”
(a) “My art is part quilting, part collage, and part history.” Each piece is one of
a kind and handmade. A quilted blossom anchors a vintage postcard. “The
words ‘play nice’ wiggle across the top, much as the squeaky-clean boys wish
they could!”
In Virginia’s work, treasured mementos mingle with tiny quilted pieces
and quotes “that reconnect your heart and mind.” (b) “This one is quiet and
asks for a second look.” (c) “I Wish I Wish” features delicate lace and 89
machine-pieced, hand-quilted, 1/4-inch squares.
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