Thursday, July 17, 2025, Marion Public Library, Meeting Room B, 600 S Washington St, Marion, IN
In this PowerPoint presentation, Judy Martin shows photos of a wide variety of her original quilts from her 55+ years as a quilt maker and discusses a wealth of ideas that you can incorporate into your own quilts. Judy is known for her innovative block and quilt designs in a largely traditional style. She has no shortage of ideas for her next quilt. In fact, each quilt Judy designs gives her multiple ideas for future quilts. Sometimes she explores related possibilities concurrently in Adobe Illustrator. This may result in multiple quilts that dance around a single idea. At other times, she revisits an idea, sometime years later, when it is the perfect moment to use it in a quilt. Judy discusses her toolbox of ideas and shows photos of multiple quilts to illustrate each one.
About the Presenter: One of the world’s foremost quilt designers, Judy Martin has long sought to bridge the gap between the traditional and modern. In the wake of the Bicentennial Quilt Revival, Judy was an enthusiastic proponent of machine piecing and helped bring pattern presentation into the modern era. Her work remains rooted in the shapes and styles of traditional quilts but feels fresh and original. Judy’s inventive plays on Log Cabin and Lone Star Quilts—each the subject of multiple books and a dazzling array of variations—have become two of her hallmarks. Over the course of her prolific four-decade career, Judy has inspired and empowered quilters to do their best work.
