Linda began quilting in 1987 and her favorite techniques are pictorial paper piecing and applique. She "caught the bug" when she designed paper-pieced additions for 6 or 8 quilt tops in a  Round Robin challenge that her Quilt Guild staged in the 90s. She enjoyed the results so much that not long thereafter in August 1997 she started offering paper-pieced patterns in a subscription “Patternletter," and jumped onto the internet in November that year. A free paper-pieced mystery block was available on the very first day and new ones appeared four or five times a year for the 24 years following.

    Linda's quilting claim to fame came way back in 1991-2, when she had a First Place win in the 1992 American Quilter's Society Show & Contest in Paducah under Theme: Windows. The same quilt took a Best in Show for Quilting, California Living, at the California State Fair in 1991. She managed a whole four or five large quilts in total and,  these days, 30 years later, she rarely finishes anything and still refuses to learn machine quilting (the best method for quilting all this paper piecing).
    Most of Linda's patterns are pictorial and tend toward the whimsical, with occasional realistic subjects. The patterns generally have more sections and/or pieces but she is confident that you can do these patterns if you have paper pieced before. Not all patterns have borders, but her philosophy is that a pattern is just the beginning! Nothing tickles her more than when someone makes a pattern their own by adding, subtracting, changing and embellishing. Send in a photo when you're finished and she will post it on the Your Projects page!

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