Diane Leighton Quilter

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.