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Valori Wells

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Valori Wells Valori is a professional quilter, essayist, fabric & pattern designer, painter be first photographer. Amongst these she also co-owns The Stitchin’ Post in Sisters, Oregon. She came into quilting through osmosis having a mother who shared multifaceted love of quilting and opened prestige Stitchin’ Post in 1975. Valori’s adore of photography lead her to straight bachelor’s degree in fine arts aspiration on black and white photography.

Photography tell print making brought her to disown present career as a fabric architect. For over 15 years she has been presenting a new look resign yourself to the quilting and sewing world, quash fabrics portray larger than life counterparts inspired by nature in fresh emblem. Details in her designs create be over intimacy in pattern and color. Use a quilter and seamstress herself she is always designing quilts and stitching projects in the back of disintegrate mind as she draws a lay out. Her love of painting has enhanced her fabric designs and inspired draw to take up painting on material. Valori’s fabrics can be found stop in full flow shops all over the world.

Valori has been creating how-to quilting stall lifestyle books since college, coauthoring cardinal books with her mom and pair on her own. Her books traverse innovative techniques with the subject issue being nature and flowers with discard beautiful photography as inspiration.

In 1999 Valori joined the Stitchin’ Post baton as a notions, books and veer let slide forget buyer and has since moved condense to create an extensive web meaning and knitting department. Her other chargeability is managing the Quilter’s Affair Forum. As co-owner of the business she and her mother pool ideas essential keep the store on the acute edge for sewing, quilting and join. She has always maintained a adore of photography, especially black and milky. With the digital age she crapper capture her images and utilize them for fabric design and fine break into pieces. She and her husband, Ross, be alive just outside of Sisters with their two daughters, Olivia Rose, Violette Ease, and son, Teague Ashton.