| As long-time friends, neighbors, co-creators and collaborators, Amy Nichols and Alison Olds of Deer Hill Designs have always been inspired by color, texture, and design. Recently we have shifted our focus from small art quilts to jewelry design and construction, which might seem an abrupt or random change. To us, however, this was a very natural progression because we have always most appreciated small ‘jewel-like’ quilts with rich use of color and multi-faceted patterns. We have greatly enjoyed taking many classes and workshops for both jewelry making and quilting and use these many skills to hand-craft our work.
Our jewelry consists of intricately woven, wrapped or beaded pieces whose construction, like our quilt work, requires consideration of infinite variety of colors, sizes, textures, and processes during every step of fabrication. Our partnership also benefits from our complementary interests, such as Alison's preference for landscape quilts and Amy's for abstract designs and 3D quilted vessels. |
