About Karen Brow...
Designer Karen Brow has been sewing and later quilting from age fourteen. She is a graduate from Michigan Sate University has worked as a professional graphic designer and cartoon illustraiter before channeling her energies into quilting and designing unusual patterns.
Most recently she is featured in "Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks From Today's Top Designers" which will be available on news stands November 2010.
Her work has been featured in "Quilts With Style" and "American Quilt Retailer" magazines and her line of fabrics has graced the front of "The Quilter Magazine."
Her patterns and quilts appear regularly in "Keepsake Quilting" , "Hancock's of Paducah" and "Nancy's Notions" catalogues, as well as at the major US Quilt Markets.
She teaches locally in Southern California and lectures to guilds nationwide. (See the "Calendar" page for dates and locations.)
"I have a particular love for setting gentle, applique' curves against the strong lines of pieced blocks, because the sense of movement and the unexpected disruption of an otherwise anticipated pattern repeat. We can use playful, life-size animals or gently twisting vines and the result is dramatic; they just set each other off.
When all the design elements are working together, another quilter can take my pattern, render it in completely different color schemes, and it still "works."
I know that quilters glean a lot of information from the pattern photos, so I take extra care to have colors reproduced accurately for covers or electronic media. I try to do something a little different with colors when I first create a quilt. I believe there is a point in fabric selection when those colors will just "SING" and that's what I go for. It's one of quilting's greatest rewards: the harmony of fabrics working together."
--Karen Brow
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