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craft 04-23-2020 05:46 AM

What was her name and show?
 
Hi Everyone,
I am sitting here by my computer racking my brain trying to remember this one famous quilt designer, instructor and her show. All I can remember is that every time she cuts her fabric pieces out she tosses fabric over her shoulders. She has these quilt parties when she is making a quilt and invites people to these parties and it is a blast to watch her show and listen to her. I cannot seem to remember her name or show.

laurilli 04-23-2020 05:56 AM

Is it Eleanor Burns? She throws her fabric over her shoulders, but I don't remember quilt parties.

luvstoquilt 04-23-2020 05:57 AM

Eleanor Burns. She is on line in Quiltinaday.com

OurWorkbench 04-23-2020 05:57 AM

I believe you are thinking about Quilt In A Day by Eleanor Burns.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

toogie 04-23-2020 06:23 AM

The comments above are correct about Eleanor Burns. However, I have had quilting parties where I have the quilt already in a frame and hand quilters come and quilt. I have a lunch prepared and they come and go as they please, as some can stay longer than others. It is great fun and we get a quilt finished while we visit.

Onebyone 04-23-2020 06:36 AM

Eleanor Burns has been given the title of Queen of Quilting by the quilt world. She is a treasure. Her story and that of the Doan family are very similar. Both started with practically nothing and turned it into a quilting empires.

Iceblossom 04-23-2020 06:41 AM

Here's one of the parties, a little different than the usual tv show format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktzb2wMMwzc

I have this one bookmarked because I used her technique with rickrack (starts around minute 18) when making my fan quilt last year. Good old Eleanor, the throwing over the shoulder thing gets to me but I've learned a thing or two and have bought a tool or book or two in my time as well.

Jordan 04-23-2020 07:46 AM

It is the Eleanor Burns videos. I love watching her-she is really funny and has a lot of fun showing her audience her antics.
I have watched some of her shows and she has the ladies bring up to the front of the audience quilts that they have made.

sandy l 04-24-2020 03:03 AM

And during the Paducah Quilt show that I went to one year, she had big tent sale.

debstoehr 04-24-2020 05:14 AM

I went to a 3 day workshop with her several years ago. We did 3 different quilts. She had different activities each evening for the group including a wonderful trunk show. She was the nicest person to talk to and so patient when someone had a question about a technique.

CanoePam 04-24-2020 07:15 AM

She has great techniques and quality presentations. Her voice drives me crazy though, so I stick to her books when I can LOL! She is a treasure.

MamaLinda 04-24-2020 07:51 AM

Have always enjoyed her too. Thanks for the reminders

BonnieJP 04-24-2020 01:23 PM

It was Eleanor Burns. Her show is still broadcast on Lake Shore PBS (Merrillville, IN) on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. My husband tapes the shows for me and we usually watch them in the evening when we're relaxing. He always gets a kick out of her tossing the fabric scraps over her shoulder.

https://lakeshorepbs.org/tv-schedule...rted=relevance

Suz 04-25-2020 04:22 PM

I can recall when I was 8 or 9 and going to my grandmother's. She and several ladies surrounded the quilt that Gram had pieced and they were handquilting the quilt. The wooden quilting frame was over the bed. They gave me a needle and thread and allowed me to stitch and I now assume they pulled my stitches out, but I was part of their "Quilting Bee". I vowed then to someday do what they were doing. I took me another 35 or so years to get started. This would have been in the early 40s, therefore making me a "youngster". Right?

QuiltnNan 04-26-2020 03:20 AM


Originally Posted by Suz (Post 8380670)
I can recall when I was 8 or 9 and going to my grandmother's. She and several ladies surrounded the quilt that Gram had pieced and they were handquilting the quilt. The wooden quilting frame was over the bed. They gave me a needle and thread and allowed me to stitch and I now assume they pulled my stitches out, but I was part of their "Quilting Bee". I vowed then to someday do what they were doing. I took me another 35 or so years to get started. This would have been in the early 40s, therefore making me a "youngster". Right?

I love this story. Thanks for sharing.


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