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Kim creates amazing quilts for the modern home. We just had to highlight these as part of our first DIY City mag featuring NYC inspired art. She also creates some really funky quilted recycled B.O.B.s. She participated in the recent Urban Craft Uprising in Seattle.

DIY City: How did you get interested in quilting?
Kim: I have always loved to sew. I went to college for fashion design only to realize that it is really hard to become an actual fashion designer! So I decided to make a quilt for my nieces first birthday, I went out and got a few books and realized that all the patterns and fabrics in the quilting books were very outdated. So I decided to throw out the color wheel and use fabrics I wanted to see and make my own patterns using some of the traditional quilting blocks as a guide.

DIY City: Do you participate in any craft/maker communities? Are you located in Seattle?
Kim: Yes I am originally from Peoria, Il, but now reside in Seattle. oh yeah with a pit stop in Brooklyn, NY that is where I got the inspiration for the Street Sign Quilt.

DIY City: Where do you find supplies?
Kim: I usually stick with the Joann fabrics just because they give me so many coupons!!

DIY City: When did you start making the recyclable B.O.B.s?
Kim: B.O.B.s (bags out of bags) is a project I started in 2007. I had a closet full of plastic bags and wanted to do something with them I just didn’t know what. Then I saw the big movement to fuse them and I thought hey I should fold them into squares and quilt them! ! B.O.B.s are super durable and carry a lot of weight. Depending on the size of the B.O.B. they can be up to sixteen layers thick! The quilting lines are done after the bags are assembled to ensure that rips won’t go far and to maximize strength.

DIY City: Anything else that you think our readers should know about your work?
Kim: I love quilting and hope to one day write a fresh quilting book with new hip patterns and different ideas on color and fabric choice.

Follow Kim’s Don’t Quilt Your Day Job blog at dontquiltyourdayjob.wordpress.com.