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Mar. 11th, 2014 12:44 amWrite about 5 quilters who have influenced your “quilting world” and how they did so. These do not have to be “famous people”. They can be anyone who influenced you attitude towards quilting.
1. Ramona Andersen, my mother, began piecing a couple quilt tops in the seventies and when a block in Family Circle caught my eye she and my sister helped me put together fabrics from her scraps for thirty blocks. I was hooked.
2. All the ladies of the Lincoln Quilters Guild. In 1983 I began learning by leaps and bounds from the example of the talented quilters there. I took most of the workshops offered and sampled many techniques over the two decades that I was a member.
3. Jo Baxter, in particular, mentored me in the LQG and encouraged me to be active in the nuts and bolts of the Guild.
4. I particularly liked Mary Ellen Hopkins' attitudes and suggestions for quilters; author of It's Okay if You Sit on My Quilt books. She was a stand up comedienne who happened to be a quilter and I had the pleasure of attending her programs at least four times, perhaps many as six. Details elude me.
5. Paula Nadelstern - I took a workshop many years ago and put together several 'sets'. I've been collecting fabrics for a decade with this technique in mind and eventually I'll get my sewing room in order and resume practicing more of these.
1. Ramona Andersen, my mother, began piecing a couple quilt tops in the seventies and when a block in Family Circle caught my eye she and my sister helped me put together fabrics from her scraps for thirty blocks. I was hooked.
2. All the ladies of the Lincoln Quilters Guild. In 1983 I began learning by leaps and bounds from the example of the talented quilters there. I took most of the workshops offered and sampled many techniques over the two decades that I was a member.
3. Jo Baxter, in particular, mentored me in the LQG and encouraged me to be active in the nuts and bolts of the Guild.
4. I particularly liked Mary Ellen Hopkins' attitudes and suggestions for quilters; author of It's Okay if You Sit on My Quilt books. She was a stand up comedienne who happened to be a quilter and I had the pleasure of attending her programs at least four times, perhaps many as six. Details elude me.
5. Paula Nadelstern - I took a workshop many years ago and put together several 'sets'. I've been collecting fabrics for a decade with this technique in mind and eventually I'll get my sewing room in order and resume practicing more of these.
