ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am fascinated by the combination of color, fabric, design and texture in the triad of processes that offer the challenge and excitement of design, the satisfaction of task oriented mundane construction, and the meditative quality of quilting. All the steps of quiltmaking offer creative surprises that keep me working to see what will happen next. My love of working with fabric transcends style and function. My quilts range from interpretations of the traditional to original designs that some call art quilts. I believe quilts are worth putting my time into, both for my own satisfaction and for those to whom they ultimately will belong.

Publications

Foundation Borders, with Jane Hall (AQS 2002)

Hall & Haywood’s Foundation Quilts, with Jane Hall (AQS 2000)

Firm Foundations, with Jane Hall (AQS 1996)

Precision Pieced Quilts Using The Foundation Method, with Jane Hall (Chilton 1992)

Perfect Pineapples: Exploring Design and Techniques for Pieced Pineapple Quilts,         with Jane Hall (C&T Publishing 1989)

Crazy Quilting With A Difference (Scissortail 1981)

            Republished as Crazy Quilt Patchwork: A Quick and Easy Approach with   19 Projects (Dover 1986)

The Contemporary Crazy Quilt Project Book (Crown 1977)

            Republished as Quick and Easy Crazy Quilt Patchwork: With 14 Projects

            (Dover 1992)

I have contributed to eighteen other books, and written over 150 articles for national quilting publications. My work has been included in an additional fourteen books, and I have been sited in six more.

Exhibitions and Awards

My quilts have been exhibited regularly at the American Quilter’s Society, the American International Quilt Association, and the National Quilt Association annual show. I have won awards at all of them, as well as in regional and local shows from 1979 to present.

Recent invitational exhibits include:

Quilters Newsletter Magazine Gallery, 2002 (Group show)

New England Quilt Museum, 2003 (Group show)

Dollarhide Music Gallery, Pensacola, FL, May-July 2003

Ft. Walton Beach Art Guild Gallery, 2005 (Six person show)

The Art Company, 2006 (Group show)

South Carolina Botanical Garden Discovery Center, July-Sept 2007 (Two person show)

Affiliations

American Quilter’s Society

American Quilt Study Group

International Quilt Association

Museum of the American Quilter’s Society

National Quilting Association, Inc.

Quilters of South Carolina

Pensacola Quilters Guild (Heritage Member)

Prickly Fingers Quilt Guild (Anderson, SC)

Lake and Mountain Quilt Guild (Seneca, SC)

To contact me directly: dixiehay@nctv.com