Let me introduce you to Juanita Sauve

I live in Ontario, Canada and I have been creating hand stitched wall hangings for 15 years. I began stitching reluctantly when someone asked me to contribute a quilt square to a women's strength quilt. The theme was "where do I find my strength?" At the time, my only brush with sewing was high school home economics class (and sewing buttons and hemming pants). Since I did not own a machine, I hand stitched my square. I soon discovered that creating with fabric and thread was a whole other process and I loved it!!

At that time I had worked with clay for many years, and was best known for my porcelain miniatures and stained porcelain jewelry which I sold all over Canada. I also taught pottery classes for several years.  In 1993 I gave up pottery to return to school to work on a social work degree. I found hand stitching was the perfect complement to a career in social work. Primarily, I quilted for my own pleasure but since becoming semi-retired, I have begun exhibiting and selling my work. I also paint with acrylics.

Being an avid hiker, music lover, and a woman's advocate has influenced the direction of my work which revolves around themes of nature, the outdoors, women and music. I often work from my own photos taken during my travels. Embellishing my work with stones, gems, twigs, even driftwood, I seek to communicate a sense of connection in the viewer. Whether I am writing poetry and songs or creating a quilt, my aim is to tell a story, one which will hopefully strike a chord in others. I also use paints - acrylics to paint trees, ranger inks to dye skies - and I've recently practiced hand-dying fabrics in a class I am taking.

My techniques are mostly self-taught, often from trial and error. As well, over the years I have taken workshops and classes in creating art quilts and landscape quilts. I am interested in learning and experimenting, reading quilting and fabric art books, and I belong to two online quilting groups where I have learned a great deal.   I recently entered the world of blogging and enthusiastically update my quilting blog regularly. I have my grandmother and mother to thank for showing me how to embroider. And I still hate sewing on buttons and hemming pants.

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Currently Teaching:

Fabric Landscapes - Turn photos of your favorite landscapes into works of art. Remember how much fun it was to do paint by numbers when you were a kid? In this unique class you will be able to do just that but instead of using paint, you will using fabric!

This class is expected to open in March of 2010.  If interested register for our site, so you get our email on when you can start signing up.