David Taylor

I cannot remember a time in my life without fabric. As a child I was fascinated by my mother’s sewing machine, a 1967 Sears Kenmore, and could not wait until I was old enough to use it. My brothers and sisters and I would gather around our formica-topped dining room table (with aluminum edging) as my mother would set up the machine for a bit of sewing. “Mommy’s doing magic!” we would shout every time she wound a bobbin. At the age of 10 I sewed my first Halloween costume based on a design I saw in an issue of Betty Crocker’s Sphere magazine (mid-1970s.) I won a small frosted cake for First Place at my Cub Scout meeting that October in North Kingston, Rhode Island, where we were living at the time. I was hooked. 

David was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been the recipient of the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilting from the International Quilt Association (2006, 2014), the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (2008), the Director’s Award at Road to California (2022), and a two-time Best-of-Show winner at IQA’s Spring Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008), among others. His art quilts hang in numerous private collections.  https://www.davidtaylorartquilts.com/

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