Julia McLeod - Piecing

Julia McLeod
Walnut Creek, CA

Julia McLeod is an award-winning quilt maker living and working in northern California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Julia specializes in making quilts from rescued materials, particularly silks. Neckties, saris, kimono and furnishing fabrics all find their way into her quilts.

Born and raised in England, Julia worked as a menswear textile designer in the woolen- and worsted mills of Yorkshire and Scotland, and later for a company on Savile Row, in the heart of London’s bespoke tailoring industry. Julia moved to New York City in the early 1990’s, and America has been her home ever since.

Julia enjoys lecturing and teaching on the subject of quilting-making with unusual and reclaimed textiles. She is also a trained quilt judge. Her book, Patchwork Luxe, is published by C&T Publishing.