Andi Perejda - Traditional and Art Quilts

Andi Perejda is an award-winning quiltmaker, teacher and NQA Certified Quilt Judge. She began quilting in 1991 and her interest and enthusiam in all facets of quilt making continues to grow. She is well known for her hand quilting and hand appliqué, however her interests are not limited to these.

Andi regularly enters regional and national shows and has won many prizes including Best of Show, Best Innovative Design, Merit Hand Quilting, Appliqué Master, and First Place Naturescape Art Quilts. Her quilts have been published widely in periodicals and books. Her whole-cloth quilt, Silver Splendor, has traveled to Japan with AQS and to Barcelona with IQA. Her appliqué quilt, Whigged Out on the West Coast, has been patterned by Quilters Newsletter Magazine and published in their 2004 Wall Calendar. It has also traveled to Quilt Expo at The Hague with IQA. Her art quilt, Branching Out, will be traveling to Lyon, France with IQA in June, 2006.

Andi teaches workshops for quilters and has a self-published pattern for a pieced Circle of Illusion, which originated with her innovative quilt, Just Plane Fun. This technique was featured in show #926 on Simply Quilts (HGTV).

Getting up close to other people’s quilts is also something Andi enjoys as a certified quilt judge. She finds it exciting to discover the creative touches and details that all quilters bring to their work and she delights in their accomplishments.

For me quilt making is a fascination, an insuppressible urge, perhaps an obsession. I love it for its intimacy with my home life in California. Sometimes quilt designs seem to occur to me subconsciously, while at other times they come to fruition very rationally, on graph paper and thorough careful planning. One of the joys of making quilts is sharing them with other people and realizing that I have communicated something that causes them to pause for a moment and consider….

Along with vibrant color, I love working with a variety of fabric types and finishes to create textural interest in my quilts. With friends I have started to dabble in fabric dyeing to achieve unique fabrics. Recently I have also begun to enhance details of my quilt designs with beading, painting on fabric, pencil work, pen work and embroidery.

Another focus of my work is creating fine textural details with carefully planned quilting designs. I am fascinated with the use of quilt motifs to add line, shape and overall design support to quilts.

Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1979, Cellular Biology
B.S., Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, 1974
Judging Seminar, 2000, Anita Shackelford and Klaudeen Hansen
Drawing Class, Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA, 2004 & 2005, S.K. Johnson
NQA Judge’s Certification, June, 2003
Quilting design/technique classes from a variety of well-known teachers

"Color & Cloth: Redefining A Traditional Art Form" Elverhoj Museum, Solvang, CA,
     November 16, 2007 - January 27, 2008
Fibervision "Frame of Reference", Santa Barbara Architectural Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA,
     March 4 - March 28, 2008
"Cutting Edge: New Works in Fiber Art," Arroyo Arts Collective, The Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,
     March 8 - April 6, 2008

IQA Festival, Houston, TX
2005, Art Quilts, First Prize, Naturescapes, “Branching Out”
2001, Innovative Large Applique, Third Prize, “Whigged Out on the West Coast”
2000, Merit Hand Quilting, First Prize, “Silver Splendor”
Finalist: “Burnished Gold,” 2003, “Warriors,” 2002, “Just Plane Fun,” 2000, “First Blush,” 2005, “Ursprung: Yellowstone,” 2005

Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA
2004, Wall Quilts, Second Prize, “Burnished Gold”
2003, Best Applique, Innovative Wall, “Que Syrah, Syrah”
2001, Best Hand Workmanship, Traditional Large, “Silver Splendor”
1998, Judge’s Choice, “Bora Bora Tai”
Finalist: “Spores from Space,” 2001, “Sweet Dreams, Pat!” 2000

AQS Show, Paducah, KY
2001, McCall’s Best Hand Workmanship Award, Wall, “Silver Splendor”
1998, Vacation Themed Wall Quilts, Second Prize, “Bora Bora Tai”
Finalist: “1910 Revisited,” 2001, “Op Amish,” 1997

NQA Show
2007, Honorable Mention, "Eye of the Ancients"
2005, Mary Krickbaum Award for Best Hand Quilting in Wall Quilts, “Burnished Gold”
2005, Art Quilts, Large, First Prize, “Branching Out”

Quilt Expo (Europe)
2006, “Branching Out,” "Que Syrah, Syrah" (Fruit of the Vine Exhibit)
2004, “Whigged Out on the West Coast”
2002, “Silver Splendor”

Tokyo Great International Quilt Festival
2002, “Silver Splendor”

The Appliqué Society Show
2005, Professional Applique, Third Prize, “First Blush”
2003, Best of Show, “Whigged Out on the West Coast”

Quilt Odyssey Contest and Symposium
2003, Best Hand Quilting, "Burnished Gold"
2002, Best Hand Quilting and Third Prize, Applique, "Whigged Out on the West Coast"
2001, Best Hand Quilting, "Silver Splendor" and First Prize, Traditional Pieced, "1910 Revisited"

Road To California Regional Show
2003, Best Hand Quilting, “Burnished Gold”
2002, Innovative Applique, Large, First Prize, “Whigged Out on the West Coast”
2001, First Prize in Category, “Silver Splendor”
2000, Best Innovative Design, “Just Plane Fun”
1999, Large Innovative Applique, First Prize, “Bora Bora Tai”
1997, Best Hand Quilting, “Op Amish”
1996, Small Wall Quilts, First Prize, “Peace & Quiet”
Finalist: 2006, “Branching Out,” 2005, “First Blush,” 2004, “Que Syrah, Syrah,” 2003, “Promise of Spring,” 2001, “1910 Revisited,” 2000, “Perennials,” 1999 “Rose Ella’s Breadfruit”

Featured Artist, 2003, Road To California, Ontario, CA
Special Exhibitions with IQA: “In the American Tradition III”, “In Full Bloom” and "Sky's the Limit"
Television Appearance: “Quilts that Fool the Eye,” QLT-926, Simply Quilts, HGTV

California Exposition & State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Hoffman Challenge, Kelly Gallagher Abbott, curator
Best of the Valley Regional Show, Tulare, CA
Glendale Quilt Show, Glendale, CA
Coastal Quilter’s Guild, Santa Barbara, CA
Cotton Patch Quilters Guild, Bakersfield, CA
Santa Maria Valley Quilt Guild, Santa Maria, CA
Santa Barbara County Fair
Univ. of California Agriculture & Natural Resources Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo County, CA
Santa Barbara Holiday Faire, CA

Hand Quilting, Needleturn Applique and Circle of Illusion teaching DVD/videos produced by Kelly Gallagher Abbott, Jukebox Quilts, 2005
Quilts in Bloom, Marion Haslam, Collins & Brown Ltd., London, 2004
Convergence Quilts, Ricky Tims, C & T Publishing, Lafayette, CA, 2003
Infinite Feathers: Quilting Designs, Anita Shackelford, AQS, Paducah, KY, 2002
America from the Heart, Karey Bresenhan, editor, C & T Publishing, 2002
Great American Quilts, Oxmoor House, 2001
Other periodical publications available upon request.

Alliance for American Quilts, American Quilter’s Society (AQS), Fibervision, International Quilting Association (IQA), National Quilting Association (NQA), The Applique Society (TAS), Central Coast Quilters, American Quilt Study Group, Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)