It has been over a year since I wrote about my quilting life. Time passes so quickly and there are so many projects to complete. My passion for quilting continues to consume much of my time although my little grandson, Chase, is truly my first love. He turned 3 on October 12th and I take every opportunity to vist and share life with him.
I continue to snatch every opportunity to visit quilt shows and shops wherever I travel. In June of this year, I went to the Vermont Festival, entered a quilt and received a third place ribbon. Of course, it was an opportunity to visit my cousin Barbara and other family. PIQF in Sunnyvale in October was the best ever. My involvement with the New Quilts of Northern California exhibit made it a special time for me. For the next two years, I will serve as Director of the Northern CA Quilt Council.
At home, the Valley Quilt Guild and Calendar Girls keeps me challenged and excited about my quilting projects and my quilting friends.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Monday, August 17, 2009
Diane Leighton
My quilting life began in the early 1980's after a weekend of visiting my friend Sally who had recently become a quilter. I was fascinated with the quilts she had created and thirsty for the how-to knowledge. I bought a book that weekend that would change my life forever. It was called You Can Be a Super Quilter by Carla Hassel. Does anyone remember that book?For a few years, I learned to quilt from books, by myself until I discovered other quilters, the Valley Quilt Guild and what it meant to have quilting friends. During this time my husband and I owned a restaurant and I was recruited to teach in the Foodservice department at Yuba College (which I did for over ten years). In 1985 I asked my division dean, Don Lehman, if I could start a class in quilting (if I could handle Foodservice, I could certainly teach my first love, quilting). That class was the beginning of an adventure that continues to the present.My involvement in quilting has grown as quickly as these twenty-some years have passed. My biggest fan (my husband) left me five years ago but his encouragement is always in my thoughts. Since I retired from nursing last year, I have even more time for my passion.
My quilting life began in the early 1980's after a weekend of visiting my friend Sally who had recently become a quilter. I was fascinated with the quilts she had created and thirsty for the how-to knowledge. I bought a book that weekend that would change my life forever. It was called You Can Be a Super Quilter by Carla Hassel. Does anyone remember that book?For a few years, I learned to quilt from books, by myself until I discovered other quilters, the Valley Quilt Guild and what it meant to have quilting friends. During this time my husband and I owned a restaurant and I was recruited to teach in the Foodservice department at Yuba College (which I did for over ten years). In 1985 I asked my division dean, Don Lehman, if I could start a class in quilting (if I could handle Foodservice, I could certainly teach my first love, quilting). That class was the beginning of an adventure that continues to the present.My involvement in quilting has grown as quickly as these twenty-some years have passed. My biggest fan (my husband) left me five years ago but his encouragement is always in my thoughts. Since I retired from nursing last year, I have even more time for my passion.
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