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Garden Quilt," won a blue ribbon at the 1974 Woodlawn Plantation Needlework Show.
Past Inspires
Her designs are original. However, Jinny draws inspiration from the past. Using the dark browns, maroons and blues preferred by Colonial quiltmakers, she reinterprets 18th and 19th century patterns, showing the same attention to detail and quality workmanship so admired in fine antique quilts.
She feels an animosity toward the so-called modern “puffy” quilts. Old quilting required close stitiching to keep the cotton batting from tearing apart. "In the process, a thing of beauty was created,” she said.
Today, with polyester batting, large portions of a quilt can be left unstitched and puffy and it will still hold together. "But you lose the beauty of the quilt,” she emphasizes.
When Jinny is not working on her latest quilt design (she has made 9), she can be found teaching classes at her home in Fairfax, at craft workshops at Cedar Lake, W. Va., in Sun River, Ore., or at The Rush River Company. In demand on the lecture Circuit, she has spoken before various quilt groups throughout the country. She is scheduled to appear at the First Continental Quilt Congress this July 13, 14, 15 at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington.
Jinny has expanded her interest in patchwork to include designing and making clothing in the patchwork idiom. Her spectacular blouses, skirts, vests and caftans can be seen at The Rush River Co. along with unusual wallhangings
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