Lecture Description: Sherri and Chelsi, the delightful mother daughter fabric design team for Moda, will share their family quilting journey while showing quilts that help tell their stories of blogging, designing quilt patterns and fabric, and producing their popular video podcast and YouTube channel videos.
About Sherri: Sherri received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and also did graduate studies in English at UNLV, teaching Freshman Composition courses at the University and Junior College level for ten years. She is married, has four children and five grandchildren and lives in southern Nevada where she spends as much of her time as possible quilting, sewing, and writing about her creative life on her blog: A Quilting Life. Inspired by a rich family heritage of women who love sewing and creating, Sherri has magical memories of homemade gifts from her mom, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother and began to sew at the age of ten when she received a sewing machine for her birthday. In the early 1990’s, encouraged by her grandmother, she began her quilting journey—and she hasn’t stopped quilting since. During the summer of 2008, she started her quilting blog which led to her discovery of the amazing online community of quilters and makers. She has been publishing her designs in magazines and books since 2011. Her first book, A Quilting Life: Creating a Handmade Home was published in 2013 with Fresh Family Traditions published in 2014. Her third book, co-authored with friend and fellow Moda designer Corey Yoder, Sunday Best Quilts: 12 Must Make Quilts You’ll Love Forever, released in June 2019. Sherri has a fourth book released in May 2020—Labor of Love: Scrappy Quilts at the Heart of Home. And her fifth book: Home & Hearth: Quilts and More to Cozy Up Your Décor released in fall 2021. Her love of organizing prompted her to write the A Quilting Life Planner: A Portable Guide to Getting (and Staying) Organized which was published in September 2020. And the follow-up full size planner—A Quilting Life Planner and Workbook released in October 2021. She continues to blog at www.aquiltinglife.com and is also blessed to be able to design fabric for Moda with her daughter Chelsi Stratton; their fourteenth fabric collection together arrives in shops in September 2022.
About Chelsi: Chelsi is married and the mother of two sweet daughters, Ashton and Harper, and a son, Finn. She enjoys being at home with her young children and loves the adventures that go along with motherhood. Art materials were always the perfect gift for Chelsi as she has always loved to draw, paint and create. Sherri will tell you that she was repainting the house frequently because Chelsi loved drawing on the walls. She is passionate about nature, music and fashion – things that inspire her art today. And like her Mom, she has always loved the creative process. Working with fabric was inevitable as she remembers rummaging through the pile of fabrics in the sewing room looking for just the right combination, and she often went to sleep listening to the hum of her Mom’s sewing machine from the adjoining room.
Learn more about Sherri at https://www.aquiltinglife.com/
https://www.facebook.com/aquiltinglife
https://www.instagram.com/aquiltinglife/?hl=en
Learn more about Chelsi at https://chelsistratton.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chelsistrattondesigns
https://www.instagram.com/chelsistratton/?hl=en
About Sherri: Sherri received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and also did graduate studies in English at UNLV, teaching Freshman Composition courses at the University and Junior College level for ten years. She is married, has four children and five grandchildren and lives in southern Nevada where she spends as much of her time as possible quilting, sewing, and writing about her creative life on her blog: A Quilting Life. Inspired by a rich family heritage of women who love sewing and creating, Sherri has magical memories of homemade gifts from her mom, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother and began to sew at the age of ten when she received a sewing machine for her birthday. In the early 1990’s, encouraged by her grandmother, she began her quilting journey—and she hasn’t stopped quilting since. During the summer of 2008, she started her quilting blog which led to her discovery of the amazing online community of quilters and makers. She has been publishing her designs in magazines and books since 2011. Her first book, A Quilting Life: Creating a Handmade Home was published in 2013 with Fresh Family Traditions published in 2014. Her third book, co-authored with friend and fellow Moda designer Corey Yoder, Sunday Best Quilts: 12 Must Make Quilts You’ll Love Forever, released in June 2019. Sherri has a fourth book released in May 2020—Labor of Love: Scrappy Quilts at the Heart of Home. And her fifth book: Home & Hearth: Quilts and More to Cozy Up Your Décor released in fall 2021. Her love of organizing prompted her to write the A Quilting Life Planner: A Portable Guide to Getting (and Staying) Organized which was published in September 2020. And the follow-up full size planner—A Quilting Life Planner and Workbook released in October 2021. She continues to blog at www.aquiltinglife.com and is also blessed to be able to design fabric for Moda with her daughter Chelsi Stratton; their fourteenth fabric collection together arrives in shops in September 2022.
About Chelsi: Chelsi is married and the mother of two sweet daughters, Ashton and Harper, and a son, Finn. She enjoys being at home with her young children and loves the adventures that go along with motherhood. Art materials were always the perfect gift for Chelsi as she has always loved to draw, paint and create. Sherri will tell you that she was repainting the house frequently because Chelsi loved drawing on the walls. She is passionate about nature, music and fashion – things that inspire her art today. And like her Mom, she has always loved the creative process. Working with fabric was inevitable as she remembers rummaging through the pile of fabrics in the sewing room looking for just the right combination, and she often went to sleep listening to the hum of her Mom’s sewing machine from the adjoining room.
Learn more about Sherri at https://www.aquiltinglife.com/
https://www.facebook.com/aquiltinglife
https://www.instagram.com/aquiltinglife/?hl=en
Learn more about Chelsi at https://chelsistratton.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chelsistrattondesigns
https://www.instagram.com/chelsistratton/?hl=en