When the door to Claudia Pfeil’s Quilt-Studio & Galerie opens, the hum of the long-arm quilting machines can usually be heard. The 330 square meter, meter high and light-flooded studio in the “Alte Brotfabrik” in Krefeld makes quilters’ hearts beat faster. Come by for a visit!
Claudia Pfeil’s award-winning works of art can be admired in her gallery. She paints with fabric and thread and chooses unique motifs, different fabrics and colors, materials and techniques.
A lush underwater landscape or the world of the Native Americans – Claudia Pfeil’s show quilts draw viewers into other worlds.
Videos about current projects, tips and tricks about the techniques used and the feeling of looking over Claudia’s shoulder in her studio – this and much more exclusive content includes a membership at Patreon. Become part of the community.
“It’s not a quilt until it’s quilted!” … because the quilting makes the quilt! Bring or send your tops (with or without batting / backing fabric) and I will quilt them on my APQS longarm machine – either freehand or computerized- according to your wishes and my ideas. Get in touch with me. I look forward to work with you as a team.
Twice a year, Claudia Pfeil has to make creative and important decisions: the design and selection of her own new fabric collections. In addition to quilts, the trained textile designer creates her own patchwork fabrics, which can be purchased by the meter, layer cakes and jelly rolls in her studio.
The path to a new collection is always an exciting process. The designs are drawn freehand in black and white, and around 150 to 200 fabric samples are then produced in Bali. Claudia Pfeil uses these fabric samples to put together collections for Island Batik – 20 fabrics in six designs per collection. It takes an average of two and a half years until she finally holds the bales of fabric produced in her hand from the original sketch. Claudia Pfeil designs quilts from her fabric collections with her special signature and color feel. For those interested, she offers suitable patterns to sew in her studio and shop.
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