I started quilting in the mid-1980’s when late one Friday afternoon I decided that cross-stitching a cover for the dog’s water bowl was just a bit much. During a visit to Hancock Fabrics that evening, mostly just to fondle fabric,  I found this wonderful book by Eleanor Burns titled “Quilt in a Day”. I bought the fabrics and was so excited because I just knew that I would have a quilt done long before the weekend was over.  With this project I learned my first quilting lesson… there is no such thing as a “quilt in a day”! But I have been hooked on quilting ever since.

My quilt teaching career started shortly after Sew from the Heart opened for business.  I bought my first serger from Susie. During my mastery classes she learned I was a quiltmaker and talked me into teaching a series of beginning quilting classes. We didn’t have a class room in those days, so students clustered around two tables at the back of the shop. At the end of the series, they each had made a wonderful new quilt, and I had made wonderful new friendships. I have been hooked on teaching ever since.

I don’t know how many students I have taught over the years there at Sew from the Heart, but I know whatever that number is, that’s also the number of new quilting friends I have made as well.