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Helen Allen
Helen Allen has been quilting since about 1980 while she was attending night school. She belongs to a quilter’s bee called “White on White”,and is also an active member of her quilt guild Piecemakers. Allen believes a quilt should have meaning, which…
Lissa Alexander
Lissa Alexander, who now works at Moda Fabrics Headquarters outside of Dallas, began quilting in 1979 when she and her sister got married. Because of her job fabric choice has influenced her quilting style, and is one of the reasons she favors scrap…
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
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
Bob Adams
Bob Adams is a retired high school art teacher from Colorado living in Lafayette, Indiana. He started quilting in the mornings before going to school and continued after his retirement with a strong interest in Harvest Moons. He became serious about…