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Colorado Creations: Scenic Landscapes

Reverend Jeptha Van Valkenburg founded the town of Erie, which lies just north of Denver. It was officially established on November 16, 1874. Erie mostly has the coal mines and the railroad to thank for its beginnings. Coal was needed for the westward expansion of the railroad from Colorado to Wyoming and Erie provided that coal. Once the third largest city in the area in the 19^th century, Erie is now a small town that boasts of a growing artist community.

Jackie Vujcich, founder of Colorado Creations Quilting, an Erie-based company, and her husband were both born and raised in Pueblo. “As a kid,” Vujcich explains, “my family didn’t have much money. So, we took road trips throughout Colorado and most of the lower 48 states, and I came to appreciate all that this wonderful state and the U.S.A. has to offer as far as scenery.” They were soon transferred to Tucson. “It was 115° the first day there, and I was 8 months pregnant with our second child,” Vujcich exclaims. “There were scorpions in the newly constructed house and a rattle snake in the garage. Not my favorite place to live, but I did appreciate the landscape of pink mountains, the tall standing saguaro cacti, javelinas (wild pigs), and even the quail that ran across the fence top. But we didn’t stay long!”

After a career shift, she and her family returned to Colorado. “My heart sang because there’s no place like home,” Vujcich says. Upon her return to Colorado, Vujcich took up quilting. A few years into it, she started teaching pieced quilting because that was popular. She designed many pieced quilt patterns but found the process frustrating to the perfectionist in her. She moved into designing pictorial art quilts, and her passion for this genre really soared. Vujcich explains: “I always thought we had taken so many beautiful pictures of places we traveled; but these pictures ended up in boxes in a closet never to be seen again. To create fiber artwork of those places that could be hung on a wall makes me smile daily.” Pattern designing and teaching led to buying fabric and to supplying kits for her classes. That’s how her shop was created. Of course, because Vujcich is a nature-lover, all the fabric has a nature theme or lends itself to producing kits for her patterns. “Every day,” Vujcich says, “I gain inspiration for my quilt pattern designs from the places I’ve lived or visited. Every day that I can create new art quilts, I consider that a good day. I encourage others to follow their passion and happiness will increase exponentially.”