Christine Ford

Quilter, Fibre Artist
Tel: 905-873-0399
Email: cford@williamsmill.com
Website: www.myquiltstudio.com
Location: Stone Building

Artist Christine Ford creates rich and colourful contemporary quilts with an abstract flair often inspired by themes of nature and the human spirit. Her first quilt made entirely by hand took a year and a half to complete.

Today with the aid of a sewing machine, she creates her own contemporary designs and specializes in a process called “free motion” quilting in which she literally draws with the needle. Improvising most of her designs, Christine uses commercial and hand-dyed fabrics that she often paints to achieve a desired effect.

Also known for her innovative fabric vases and textile jewellery, Christine originally studied visual art in school and ultimately discovered fabric to be her ideal medium. While her studies in textile art are ongoing, Christine is primarily self-taught. Her life before fabric was as a stage and screen performer and this theatrical background greatly influences her bold and dramatic fabric creations.


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