Within my classes I instruct and guide my students within certain techniques to enhance their quilting life and personal journey.

I help students explore and develop their inner talents and passions that have been hidden within them, often unknown to them and I instill an awareness and awaken them, into a new way of looking at what they’re creating.I bring with me a huge amount of contiguous enthusiasm.

Now I could write a huge auto biography about my life, achievements the good 
the not so good, but you know what.. I’m going to keep this simple as we’re all busy & simple IS good. 

I’ve been sewing all my life since I started on my mother’s treadle sewing machine. In secondary school I started making clothes for myself. 

Next I got married & made curtains, cushions etc for our house and of  course clothes. Children came along, so it was baby clothes, then toddler clothes, then all age clothes.... Fabric, cooking & gardening was & still is my life. I’m very much a home body, yes, even in this modern life we all now live in.
 

Somewhere in the above time, approx 1984, patchwork came to Australia  so patchwork & quilts were added into the mix. Mind you, we didn’t have the fabrics then that we do now or the patterns. I used dress making fabrics, which back then were all 100% cotton anyway, but needed to use sheets for the backings, etc. As there were no patterns much where I lived, I learnt to design my own quilts, hence I now never work from patterns... I literally get a picture in my head, which is also where I design that image/quilt, and I make it from that place, no pattern, just my head.

From time to time I do need to draw some sections of it, but this is very minimal, it’ll be more when there is a definite perspective of something, for example the fence within my "Through the Garden Gate" quilt. That was the only part of the quilt that was drawn on paper.

Time moved on considerably, and then I started making exhibition quilts, although these were very slow, almost 3 years per quilt, as the techniques that
I use are very slow, but then again, I take my quilts to the extremes & I was also working. My first quilt exhibition was in 2009, where I won three major ribbons including Viewers Choice. That quilt went on to win many more ribbons.

Viewers choice to me is the Ultimate Prestigious award, as it’s been chosen not by a panel of approx 3 judges but by many thousands of viewers when exhibited inmajor state shows. I’ve won this award many times now, and I always feel extremely honored to have won that Prestigious Award. On saying this, all awards are prestigious and an honor to win.

I’ve won many awards & accolades for my quilts, including several Best of Shows
and being up for Best of Australia twice. Over the last few years with doing so much teaching, etc, sadly I haven't had time to make another huge exhibition quilt. I Love making big quilts, as I really "get my head" into them.

During this time I started teaching classes within the patchwork & quilting
field, being guest artist, doing speaking events & demonstrating, writing for my website & discovered that writing is very easy for me, so something short becomes a “book” before I know it.. Whoops, I need to put the brakes on here a little before this turns into a book....

I also wrote for a major quilting magazine within the UK for approx 12-15 months
having my own regular pages as well as doing feature pages, until the company was sold. I’ve also written 2 published books, as well as PDF books and planning on more in the future. I’ve been featured within many magazines both quilting & country style magazines. I’ve been on ABC country radio live twice and.... Whew.... did I say I was going to keep this short & simple?

I now spend a lot of my time teaching, demonstrating, etc, writing & creating
here within my website, including on-line classes, etc, so that others possibly  just like yourself are also able to learn & grow within their own personal creative journey. My on-line classes will continue to grow quite regularly, but they do take time to design, create etc.

My great loves and specialties are appliqué that looks like needleturn but is all sewn on the machine & trapunto. You’ll never find a piece of my work that doesn’t have trapunto added within it unless possibly my thread painting pieces as per my In person classes, samples etc.

I do, do many other techniques as well, but I must admit piecing is something
that I left behind quite a few years ago, for no other reason than I fell in love with this style of appliqué & trapunto. I’ve been doing both these techniques now for over 30 years. Where has the time gone I wonder?

I can also take a piece of fabric, often regardless of what the design is on
that fabric & turn it into something very different. One of my on-line classes teaches how I do this, so you may even like to check it out.

I've "lightened" the image of the fabric, so you can see it better here. It's exactly 
the same colour as the appliqued flower. What you see is only fabric, there has not been any other medium added to the colour of the flower.

I believe that creative talents & knowledge need to be shared with others, so that
others may also grow within their very own personal creative journey and this is what I strive to do here within my Rose Lewis Quilting, whether that be through my blog posts, videos, on-line classes & patterns, books, In-person classes, speaking & demonstrating events, etc.

With all the above now said, and much has been left out, you may like to join my 
weekly newsletter that’s full of awesome information to help you yourself & others to grow within yours and their personal creative & inspirational journey.

You’ll also find lots of help, guidance, learning, tips 'n' tricks within my Pinterest.

I’m going to leave this here for now, but please do check out my Gallery page for 
many images of quilts, etc that I’ve created, that hopefully will give
you some creative inspiration.

The techniques that I use are actually very simple; it’s just that I take all my work 
to the extremes, but when teaching, I teach it very simply, because I believe if you’re learning a new technique, and you’re learning it at an extreme level, then you’ll never come back to it...by learning simply, you’ll grow with it. A baby didn’t learn to run a marathon before they could walk; they worked their way to it, one step at a time.

To see more of my work, just jump into my Gallery and hopefully I can inspire
you somewhat.

I'm proud of myself for managing to keep this short, sweet & simple.

Looking forward to having you join us all here.

Have the most beautiful & creative day
Rose