Modesto, California
www.CathieHooverStudios.com
1. Describe your signature style in 5 words: appliquéd, colorful, unusual, amusing, polished workmanship.
2. Do you ever work in another medium, and if so, what is it and what appeals to you about it? No
3.
What's coming up for you in the artistic world? My plan is to publish
my second pattern, and publish a book in 2015 on my techniques.
4. Do you have any studio rituals? No. When I enter my studio to work, I get to work.
5. Who has inspired your artistic journey? Jean Ray Laury, Roberta Horton, Michael James, Yvonne Porcella.
6.
What are five essential things in your studio that you cannot live
without? Great lighting, several Berninas, my 35 year old fabric stash, a
great tools.
7. What is on your design table right now? Another intersecting rings quilt that will be on
the cover of my second pattern.
8.
How do you juggle your artistic life, family, friends, etc.? Sometimes I
do not juggle them well at all! My family loves what I create, but they
do not always appreciate the time and effort it takes to create
original quilts. My friends are quilters and understand the same
language I do!
9.
Do you have any studio companions (human or otherwise)? No animals any
more. I have taught a new friend the basic of quilting and she is now
hooked. Perhaps we might be able to work together in the future.
10.
What was the biggest challenge in creating your piece for Relections? I
have
hundreds (possibly thousands) of photographs from my childhood and
parenthood. It was very difficult to sort through all these photographs
and select the ones that held the essence I wanted for "Quelle Vie."
Several were deleted when I realized some photographs needed to be
larger than I had originally planned. The quilt's size, 24" X 60", can
only hold so many photos! The "ah hah!" moment came when I chose the
photograph of me sitting on a granite throne - a focal point was chosen.
When I first began to quilt, you came to Orange County Quilt Guild and you picked me to model your amazing clothes! I will never forget that and you. You won't remember this at all, but it was HUGE to me. Never dreamed that I would have work in an exhibition with YOU.
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