Date: Saturday, October 5, 2024
Time: 10AM
Location: Recovery Church and Zoom (see October newsletter for link)
Non-members can buy Zoom tickets at the MQ Store
Landscape Quilting with Emily Chesick
A middle school craft class in enameling turned into a lifelong passion for jewelry designer and maker, Emily Chesick. Although eventually, her formal studies led to a career in horticultural forestry, she also took many art classes along the way. Enameling, however, continued to remain a constant in her life, but only as an enjoyable hobby.
That all changed in 1998 when she plunged into jewelry making full time working for a local jeweler. Now, instead of toiling daily as a botanist, she infuses her creations with botanical flair.
She started making landscape quilts after taking a class in 2003 where she became hooked (or is it pinned?) on the technique. Always drawn to the outdoors , exploring the national parks and southwest United States broadened her view of the natural world and inspired her artistic eye. Her landscape quilts are inspired by the natural world but always start from a photograph she has taken. She challenges herself to make them as believable as possible.
Emily has two adult children and two grandchildren, and currently lives with her husband and cat near St Paul
