Karen Goruick is the Assiniboia Art Council’s Mistletoe Art and Craft sale coordinator along with Joanne Weiss. Her art centres on quilts and coiled bowls. The following is an excerpt from an interview between the ACC and Goruick in September.
“I have been quilting for about 25 years. I am self-taught but it's a natural talent I inherited from my maternal ancestors. I have sewed clothing since age 13; at first it was for myself and then for my kids and husband.
“My passion with working with fabric really expanded when I began quilting – no zippers, buttonholes, darts, etcetera and no fitting necessary.
“Over the years, I have worked in quilt shops, taught classes and participated in craft sales. I have made numerous bed quilts, table runners, pot holders, panel quilts – many of which were customer requests. I also began making coiled bowls that are popular. It was a great way to use fabrics I no longer cared for, be it colour or print.
“When I joined the Arts Council, I was inspired to branch into a more artsy type of quilt work and have been having fun researching and discovering some simple but effective methods for another type of fabric manipulation and designing my own ideas.”
