Presenter Candy Grisham took her first sewing class when she was 9, making a corduroy jumper and a plaid shirt. Once she saw one of her ancestor's quilts at the Smithsonian, she was hooked on quilting. 

While she is a mom and a nurse practitioner, Candy still finds time to teach at Quilt Camp in Missouri, a fun job she has been doing for over 10 years.

Candy's program featured a number of quilts created using a variation of Dresden plates.  Her method? She usually quilts her background first, layers her Dresden designs on the quilted background with Pellon, then hand or machine quilts the Dresdens separately.

Candy shared quilts with a variety of different patterns, including basic Dresden circles with scalloped edges, pointed edges, two alternating colors and some with each blade a split of two colors. Some quilts featured Dresden 2.0 designs with more detailed sawtooth, flying geese, cogwheel, split wedge, bullseye, and impov patterns. Notice the borders on Candy's quilts, which continue the Dresden theme with wedge shapes aligned in straight rows.  Her "Service for Twelve" quilt was a group quilt that hung at the Houston Quilt Show. Candy's first created pattern was "Friends in the Garden at Midnight," and she has a new pattern coming out soon called "Sunflower Sampler." She has published two books, Dresden's Reimagined and How to Make Modern Dresdens. To learn more about Candy, visit her website icandyfiberart.com.

A number of members and guests enjoyed the afternoon workshop.