32nd Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival Saturday, August 23, 2008 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Downtown Cary
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See a list of this year's participating artists, including the 2008 Jerry Miller Award winners.
Featured Artist for 2008 - Ann Harwell
I have been sewing together little pieces of fabric for over 40 years! When I was eight years old I was given my first sewing machine for Christmas. It was a hand cranked beige Singer and it still works today! I made everything that Barbie and Ken could have wanted on this machine.
My formal education was in Early Childhood in the early 70's. I enjoyed teaching pre-school with all the wonderful geometric manipulatives: tanagrams, pattern blocks geoboards and insect kaleidoscopes made visions of wonderful quilts begin to dance in my mind! My first quilt was for my first son; a Vogue pattern circa 1977. It was so much fun and so fulfilling that he loved it so much - it became his lovey -he loved it to almost to smithereens!
We moved from Raleigh out into the country near a town called Knightdale. I was mesmerized by the clear night sky, which was frequently full of stars with a ring of Pines that clung to the remnants of a dark pink and burgundy sunset. I made Starry Starry Knightdale to help describe this experience. In 1997, I decided to retire from preschool teaching and focus on making quilts that make fabric stories and write word pictures to accompany them. Since 1999, I have been making my quilts at Artspace in an open studio in Raleigh's historic City Market.