Joyce Hughes - Thread Painting

Joyce is an award-winning self-taught quilter and fiber artist. Her first quilt was a tee-shirt quilt, which she enjoyed making, but she felt limited in expressing her artistic capabilities. Within several months, she began to design pictorial landscape quilts using raw edge applique, thread painting, and a variety of embellishments. Never knowing the "rules” she broke many of them, but with exciting results!

Amazingly, her first art quilt, "Mother's Day," was entered into a national show and won a blue ribbon. This has led to numerous awards, recognitions, and opportunities in the quilting world. One proud accomplishment of Joyce’s, in October 2012, she was selected as "McCall's Quilt Designer 2012 - Professional Category" for McCall's Quilting Magazine.

Joyce loves to Free Motion Quilt and Thread Paint.  Currently, Joyce has been working with Fabric Panels to create dimension and texture with threads and embellishments- creating a style of her own!  Joyce loves to teach and share her tips. One of her greatest accomplishments is when a student creates their own artwork following Joyce’s technique of Dimensional Thread Painting!