Linda Schmidt Simulcast Program: Flamboyancy Rising Fashion Show
Linda will bring 20 or more complete ensembles, which range from casual to formal, funky to elegant, and are truly art to wear. My philosophy about garments is that the garment should reflect your own personality, be comfortable, be washable, and truly wearable, no matter your size or shape. In the immortal words of Rachel Kinsey Clark – If you’ve got it, DECORATE it!
If you’d like to volunteer to model some of these garments, please let Judi Seip, PenWAG’s Program Chair, know! (programs@penwag.org). Otherwise, we’ll just pull them off the coat rack and show them that way.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Linda Schmidt started making her first quilt at the age of 8, and has made most of her own clothes since she was 12. She comes from a long line of quilting women and still uses some elements of traditional quilting, but most of her work involves art quilts, wearable art, portraits and landscapes.
Linda has won over 300 ribbons and prizes at textile and quilt shows (including participating at a PenWAG ArtWear show); and has taught, spoken, judged quilts and garments and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990. She has had many of her quilts published in magazines & books, has taught online classes since 1993 for QuiltUniversity and The Academy of Quilting.com, and was chosen as Quilter of the Year by the Professional Quilter Magazine in 2003.
She is also a 4-time Fairfield and Bernina fashion designer, writer, & musician, and retired from her 26-year position at the City of Dublin in 2017. She has three children, three guitars, three flutes, one piano, 5 million beads, one husband, a suddenly useful BA in French, and a 5-bedroom house she cleans herself. She gardens, cooks, does Zumba three times a week, and writes good music and bad poetry in her spare time.
She has come here with garments to show and stories to tell, so let’s get to it!
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