Dana E. Jones, artist, quiltmaker and journalist, is author of Pagtinabangay: The Quilts and Quiltmakers of Caohagan Island, which shares the story of quiltmaking on a 13-acre island in the central Philippines.
You’ll be transported to a tiny island — just 13 acres — in the central Philippines as you enjoy images and stories of the colorful quilts and the more than 100 quiltmakers of Caohagan Island. You’ll see photos of more than 50 of these handmade, one-of-a-kind quilts plus be introduced to the unique techniques developed by these quiltmakers whose tools are simply fabric and scissors, needle and thread. I spent more than a month on the island, quilted with the residents, went fabric shopping with them on nearby Cebu Island, and snorkeled the reef that surrounds Caohagan. Those who view the quilts come away smiling, inspired by the creativity of these women and men.
Dana is a former editor of Quilters Newsletter magazine and the Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal. She has had articles and/or pattern and block designs published in these magazines as well as in The Quilt Life, Fons and Porter’s Love of Quilting, McCall’s Quilting, Quiltmaker, Quilts With Style and Quick Quilts.
She spoke and taught at the 2022 International Quilt Festival in Houston and American Quilter’s Society 2022 Daytona Beach, Florida, and Grand Rapids, Michigan shows. She is a regular teacher at Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and quilt shops across Colorado, and has spoken and taught at quilt guilds and shops in Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Washington and Kansas.
Dana offers open enrollment classes via Zoom. The most popular are “Demystifying Design for Foundation Paper Piecing” and “Peace Cranes Over Hiroshima.”
Her quilts have been exhibited at Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and as part of the 2018 American Quilt Study Group traveling exhibition.
She lives at 9,200 feet in the Rocky Mountains in Gilpin County, Colorado, northwest of Denver.
For information, see www.danajonesquilts.com.