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Uncommon Hand Dyes and machine quilting patterns for today's quilter
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Mennonite influence in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. "Watching the young Amish girls quilt sometimes without even watching was an awesome sight," says Kimberly. But even so, she did not leap right into quilting. She began making apparel at age 4 on her mother's old Brother machine, and enjoyed taking advanced art and home economics classes in high school. Intermingling training as a gemologist with world travel, Kimberly studied color and design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and textiles in 21 different countries, including Bali, where she acquired her love for hand-dyeing.
She began quilting as a hobby in 1989, realizing that sewing straight lines was much more appealing to her than curved ones...and quickly began making commission quilts for non-quilting friends. After deciding that hand-quilting, although beautiful, was too time-consuming in her busy lifestyle, Kimberly bought a longarm quilting machine, on which she now does commission quilts and quilting for others.
She employs several piecers to help now with sewing straight lines and to assist in the fabrication of the many charity quilts she donates each year (one recent donation of a piece quilted by Kimberly sold for $6000 at auction!). This gives her more time to design quilting patterns for both longarm and home machines and to dye fabrics.
