Giuseppe Ribaudo (aka Giucy Giuce) grew up in Long Island, NY. First generation Sicilian-American on his father’s side and second on his mother’s, his family lived with his maternal grandparents. His grandmother, a talented and prolific seamstress, remains a tremendous source of inspiration to Giuseppe to this day. She taught him to sew at an early age, but it wasn’t until college, where Giuseppe studied musical theater, that he discovered quilting.

Giuseppe joined Instagram shortly thereafter and quickly found himself making long-distance friends in the quilting community via social media. Following college, he bounced around the country working in theater for a few years before moving back to New York to pursue a career in textiles. Within a few months of being in NYC, Giuseppe was offered a marketing position for a fabric company and was promoted to multimedia manager less than a year later. In 2018, he turned his focus to fabric design and released his first collection, Quantum. In 2021, he released his tenth collection called Nonna, an homage to his grandmother and her home where he learned to sew. Giuseppe continues to design fabric and patterns and teach quilting classes for shops and guilds across the country.

Giuseppe will present his lecture, The Power of Value. Value is an elusive and powerful tool at play in many of the quilts you see and love. But what exactly is it? Join Giuseppe Ribaudo of Giucy Giuce as he illustrates what value is and how to harness its unbelievably versatile applications. In this lecture, Giuseppe will discuss basic color theory and how you can make any and all colors work with one another by utilizing value. You'll leave the lecture with a more thorough understanding of color and value that you can apply to quilts of your own.

Website: GiucyGiuce.com

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