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Naomi Adams
Naomi Adams learned how to sew from her mother, and first learned quilting from her grandmother. She made her first quilt in 1996, and is now a quilt teacher as well as an interior designer, and caregiver. While her background was based in hand…
Tags: Alliance for American Quilts, Alzheimer's disease, Ami Simms, art, art quilts, background in art, Blogs, care-giving, Feminism, Fiber Arts Bee (Austin), Jane Sassaman, Karen Musgrave, learning to sew, Liz Kettle, machine quilting, Quilt Purpose - Activism/Awareness, quilt shows/exhibitions, Special Olympics, storytelling, Support from quilting community, Teaching quiltmaking, Texas
Lela Alcorn
Lela Alcorn learned how to quilt at the age of six from her mother, and now is a quilt teacher herself. She belongs to a guild, and is passionate about the love and the sense of family felt among quilters as a society. To Alcorn quilts are the…
Tags: applique, art, Dutch Doll, fabric choice, fabric stash, Fabric/Quilt shops, generational quiltmaking, hand quilting, love, machine quilting, museums, period fabric, Quilt history, quilt tops, quilting frames, Quiltmaking for family, Sunbonnet Sue - quilt pattern, Teaching quiltmaking, Texas, Trinity Valley Quilter's Guild