In some ways, Californian Jamie Fingal is a typical quilter: she loves fabric, stitching, creating new designs, and hanging out with other quilters. But that’s pretty much where the similarities end. One look at Fingal’s quilts and you can see she takes a different approach. A ‘rebel’ approach, in her own words, because she fuses all of her quilts, doesn’t follow a lot of the ‘rules,’ and most of the quilts have some kind of embellishment.
When she started quilting, Fingal may have used a button or two, beads, or sequins. But then she made a collection of fiber art postcards for an auction, embellishing with mother-of-pearl buttons, safety pins, and ring trim. She liked the results—and the black-red-silver color scheme—and, on a whim, she created an apron as her…
