Mary Anne was born in Rexburg, Idaho.  She is the youngest of five children.  She started sewing when she was in 3rd grade.  This is her first quilt. The blocks were embroidery, sashings and borders added.  A small amount of of hand quilting on the blocks was done and ties add to complete the quilt.



 

Y2K Mania
2000-????

In 2000 Mary Anne was surfing the web and discovered a Y2K mystery quilt pattern.  She didn't know anything about this Y2K swapping stuff, but decided to go to the attic and cut strips of all the fabrics she had.  When her husband came home, he thought this was a GREAT idea.  a FREE quilt!  Little did he know that this project would create a "quilt" monster.  As she worked on this quilt the idea of swapping squishies with quilters all over the world became very intriguing and she decided to give it a try.  Ever since then Mary Anne has been discovering new and different ways to further her quilting talents.  As for the free quilt - it is on her UFO list of projects.
 

"Remaking the Legacy"
2004-2006

After realizing that she had five generations of quilts in her home, Mary Anne decided to remake the quilt like the one her great-grandmother had given her mother for a wedding gift.  E-bay was just the place to find the feedsacks that she needed.    Because of a surgery and not being able to get to her sewing machine for awhile, she opted to hand-piece this quilt top.  It is also hand-quilted, but more because that is what her Great-grandmother would have done.

See more of Mary Anne's quilts in the Gallery of Quilts