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Mimi Ayars has her Ph. D in sociology, and began quilting in 1954 after making a trip to a fabric store. She taught herself how to quilt, and enjoys piecing because she likes challenging herself. For the most part she likes to hang her quilts in her…

Teresa Barkely learned how to sew at the age of five, and began quilting at a young age. She entered her first quilt show when she was a teen, and won a ribbon for her quilt “Denim Quilt.” She is most known for her stamp quilts, and see art as a form…

Kathryn Anderson is a generational quilt maker, but did not start quilting until after she retired from being a teacher. She creates a booklet for her children of blocks she salvaged from her mother’s and grandmother’s quilts she had used and had…

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…