I've always been a sewer―making doll clothes as a child and clothes for myself when I was in high school.  I've been quilting since 1982 and have a particular interest in machine piecing and love the creative tranquility of hand quilting.    

I live in downeast Maine on the banks of the Pennamaquan River with my writer husband, Robert, and a black & white "tuxedo" cat named Molly.   I work at a local elementary school as secretary and librarian and have been teaching quilting classes in the area for the past 10 years. 

Teaching quilting is not just a hobby for me―it is my passion.  Whether I'm in a quilt shop or at a quilt show, I'll frequently notice a new design, piece of equipment, or method and say to myself, "wouldn't that make a great workshop!"  Then I'll take that new pattern or tool home, try it out, work out the kinks, and watch a new class evolve.   

Over the years, I've taken classes from many gifted teachers including Maine's own Bethany Reynolds of Stack-N-Whack fame, Karen Combs of Tennessee, who wrote Combing Through Your Scraps and Optical Illusions for Quilters, Geneva Cunningham of Bayside, New Brunswick, Canada, who taught me the speedy way to make a Radiant Star, and Jane Smith from southern Maine, who taught the first workshop I ever took, the Log Cabin Quilt-in-a-Day.