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quilter’s profile
Tallahassee architect and professor Valerie S. Goodwin began designing and making quilts about 10 years ago. “Since then, I’ve been on a personal journey to find meaningful connections between the design principles and vocabulary of architecture and quilting, and my quilts usually focus on the relationships, patterns, and ordering principals found in architecture.” Fiber art has become her main outlet for creative expression. “Unlike the world of architecture, it’s an introverted medium where I have total design control.” She also lectures and holds quilting workshops.

Valerie is endlessly inspired by architectural elements such as built form, city grids, mapping, and composition, and you can see it in her work. She combines traditional quilt-making materials such as fiber and thread with media such as paint, paper, and pen. “I quilt by hand and machine, using sheer and opaque fabric, superimposing many layers to enrich the overall design.”

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