When Robyn Jones really wants to relax, she strolls down the unspoiled mountainside of her Colorado where you can visit her horse, Winddancer, the idea on her business name and logo. There, she could also understand the abundance of wildlife inside the adjacent National Forest including mountain lions, bear, elk, chipmunks, and antelope, which further inspire her designs. Winddancer designs are inspired by Robyn’s extensive travels through the Usa, Australia, Europe, and Asia. An avid photographer and quilter for upwards of 20 years, Robyn includes her photography, art, and quilting skills in designs for travel quilts that currently include the Usa State Quilt Series, the Australia State Quilt Series, the Down Under Wildlife Series, and the Military Series honoring our U.S. service men and women.
Every Winddancer state quilt design is planned to show areas of specific states while mixing architecture, floral, wildlife, and history into a cohesive quilt picture. Since neighboring states share many features, landscapes, and sports activities, blocks can be interchanged to personalize your quilt with your personal experiences.
Robyn works closely with her Australian artist husband, Kevin, and every design is drawn from true to life experiences or photographs of her travels. The completed designs are generated in to a computer template that’s broken into layers and pieces for quilting, then many versions are designed to get the best coloring for the final quilt. Importantly, each quilt design has to be planned utilizing a common palette of colors. This permits blocks to become interchanged along with other state and country designs, so quilters can create their own “Travel Quilt” or “Where I’ve Lived Quilt.”Winddancer Creations quilts are made with simplicity at heart in order that entire families can enjoy making a special quilt. The State designs can be used as an eye on a family’s travel experience and a few blocks, as an example the Wild Mustangs block in the Utah State Quilt design, can be created by children as young as 10-14.With Winddancer designs, color and layering are utilized extensively to produce detail. Patterns using their company designers tend to be much more complex and need advanced techniques or many years of quilting experience.
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