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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…
Kathi Babcock
Kathi Babcock learned how to quilt from a book she got when she was about 19 or 20 around the time of the bicentennial. Her mother taught her how to sew on and she views her quilting as an extension of that. She led the group that made the quilt she…
Teresa Barkley
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…
Charlotte Warr Anderson
Charlotte Warr Anderson began quilting in 1974, and taught herself from books. She considers herself to be an artist and views fabric as her medium of choice. Anderson does not think of herself as a “purist” when it comes to fabric selection, and…
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…
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…
Christine Adams
Christine Adams was interested in fabric from a very young age, as her grandparents were decorators on Philadelphia’s Mainline, and she spent a lot of time in their shop when she was young. Adams considers herself a ‘mixed media’ artist, primarily…
B. J. Adams
B. J. Adams is a quilter from Washington, D. C. Adams became aware of quilts while visiting museums, and always had an interest in crafting. She studied art in both high school and college, and began as a painter in the 1960s and began quilting about…