Rebecca's Quilting: 04/02/12

Monday, April 2, 2012

ANNELISE'S FIRST QUILT

I had some triangles left over from piecing a quilt, so I set up my 5-year-old granddaughter, Annelise, with a piece of paper, the fabric triangles and a glue stick. She designed this "quilt" herself, although - technically - it is not quilted. It is more a work of art.

ABOUT ME

I have been quilting since the early 1990s and have taught many beginner quilting classes in my home and various quilt shops in the area. In 2001, I started my own professional long arm quilting business and quilted more than 120 quilts for my customers over the next two years. One quilt that I did the custom quilting on toured the country with The Alliance for American Quilts and was raffled off, raising $10,000 for that organization. The quilt was featured on the television show Simply Quilts on HGTV and in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Another of my quilts, which I designed myself, won a ribbon at the Heritage Quilters Guild Quilt Show in Lockport, Illinois, in 2003.