David M. Taylor: Feathered Friends-Pictorial Appliqué Workshop
September 4 – 6, 2025
Thursday – Saturday. Class runs 9:00am – 4:00pm each day.
$495 Public/ $396 NQM Friend
David Taylor’s quilts are often mistaken as paintings, and that makes him very happy. His works are adapted from photographs, and his technique evolved from his love of jigsaw puzzles.
In this workshop, students will learn the fine points to his craft. Topics include his unique pattern drawing method and turned-edge, layered, freezer paper appliqué technique. A strong emphasis is placed on fabric selection (bring as much as you can to the class) and using those fabrics wisely.
All students will be working from David’s original pattern of a fine-feathered friend, and choosing their own fabric color palette – neutrals, brights, whimsical, representational, etc. – the possibilities are endless!
Let your imagination fly as you discover a new way to look at fabric and experience a new appreciation for the art of appliqué!
Material Fee: $15 (USD) for pattern and freezer paper templates provided by David. Fee is paid directly to David in class.
Rethink the traditional appliqué process in this 3-day class with David Taylor. Learn his turned-edge, layered, freezer paper appliqué technique to give the quilt a ‘painted’ effect. Students will use David’s pattern as the class project.
David M. Taylor
David Taylor currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. His obsession with fabric began at an early age, salvaging tiny scraps from his mother’s sewing area trash bin. He started creating on her sewing machine by age 10. After college, he began a 25-year career in graphic design. In 2009 he left his job at an advertising agency, started teaching appliqué and quilting, and never looked back. His first quilt design was in 1999, collaborating on a fundraiser project for Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO, with friend Madeleine Vail. Madeleine encouraged him to keep after it. His teaching adventures have taken him around the globe and his quilted artworks hang in numerous private collections.
David Taylor is a two-time recipient of the Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006, 2014), the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (Paducah Quilt Week, 2008), and a two-time Best of Show winner at the IQA’s Spring Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008).
