Guild Member Spotlight

Lou-Anne has been quilting for almost 50 years, beginning with a "dreadful" she says heart applique quilt (see below in her work) that she made for a friend's wedding. She was not sure what happened to it after she gifted it. She had always wanted to design clothing and pursued this for a while, learning how to adapt patterns and do basic fitting. However, the constraints always seemed to require too much fiddling, and the products took forever to be tailored correctly. Thus, as soon as her children were old enough not to get impaled on pins, she started making quilts. As her older kids left for college, she co-opted their rooms for an ever-expanding array of quilting supplies, encouraged by a friend, Linda J. Hahn from Frog Hollow Designs. Lou-Anne joined the CQG in 2019 and has held 4 positions in our guild since joining in 2019 after a quilt show. The positions that she has held are Membership Chair, Treasurer, Member at Large and Giraffe closet quilts co-chair (currently). 

Answer: “In general, I haven't taken many classes, I usually make up  my own patterns and many of my quilts would be considered "art" quilts. One of my favorites is Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which used to hang over my bed until my husband requested its removal."

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“Since 2005, I been a huge fan of the Vermont Quilt Festival and I did take classes on dyeing and the use of resists, and I have continued to apply these skills whenever I need a specific color or technique for a project. One of my favorites projects is a dragon quilt that I made for my oldest son and his wife, which required dyeing black. Who knew black wasn't a color.” 

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“For me quilting is an art form I use to express myself. A quilt begins with a question or idea that I have and then I draft it. Sometimes it doesn’t work and I must rethink it or abandon the idea. If I see something I want to try I usually dive right in.”

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“The most meaningful quilt I made was 50 state birds and flowers for my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. I embroidered the state birds and used the storm at sea block as the background.”