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Rosalie Baker
Rosalie Baker was a graphic artist for thirty-three years, and began quilting after she retired. She took a quilting class while taking adult education classes, and quickly started getting involved in a local guild. Her favorite type of quilt to make…
Evelyn Barber
Evelyn Barber began quilting in 1979 when she was 43 years old. She knew how to sew, but did not get into quilting until she took a class taught by Blanche Young at the Vermont Quilt Festival. She now teaches quilting in the studio Barber's husband…
Evangelina Angulo
Evangelina Angulo began quilting in January 2006 in a quilting class she took while furthering her education. Though she still has some of her quilts, Angulo prefers to sell her quilts to people who will appreciate them, and to help put her son…
Karen Alexander
Karen Alexander is a quilter, but works mainly as a quilt historian. She focuses on researching unknown quilts, and quilters’ genealogy. Her mother-in-law taught her how to quilt in 1980, however she has a long history of quilters in her family.…
Pamela Allen
Pamela Allen began her career as an assemblage artist and eventually took up quilting. She considers quilting a type of art, and therefore views fabric as the medium she creates with. Because of Allen’s background as an artist she prides herself in…
Elizabeth Akana
Elizabeth Akana began quilting in 1968 in Hawaii and has been a professional quilter since in 1969. She learned to quilt from her friend and neighbor who quilted, and together they started a business selling patterns. Later, the Hawaiian police and…
Colene Adkins
Colene Adkins had learned how to quilt later in her life and was only a quilter for about year and a half by the time this interview was conducted. Despite her mother and grandmother being quilters she learned how to quilt at the library. Her…