Join us as award-winning quilter Marla Yeager shares the highlights and lessons from her 35 year journey into (some may say addiction to) the art of quilt making. Her presentation, “Seams”, will touch on many important topics such as drafting a design, the use of color, careful piecing, and the role of quilting. It will include a trunk show of quilts that are markers of her growth as she traveled along the journey.

Marla Yeager’s bio:

“My first quilt was a lovely log cabin beauty made in 1984. Words cannot express just how “special” it is!

To date, my quilts have won awards at AQS in Paducah, IQA in Houston, Mancuso Shows and Minnesota Quilters Show in Duluth to name a few.

I have no formal art training but have studied quilting under my mentor, Jean Lohmar, Doreen Speckmann, Diane Gaudynski, Ricky Tims, Gerald Roy and Harriet Hargrave. My passion is in learning. Any project that provides a healthy challenge will attract my attention immediately. Being dyslexic, instructions come with their own set of problems for me. The answer to this problem was to draft my own projects, then there are no instructions to misunderstand. My family moved frequently so my quilts became my “friend in a box”, always there to provide a challenge and bring peace in my life.

All of my competition quilts are machine quilted by me on a domestic sit-down sewing machine. This style of quilting I learned from Harriet Hargrave and Diane Gaudynski. In 2007 my quilt “Buckskin” won the Bernina Workmanship Award in Paducah and is now a part of the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky. My work has appeared in many publications and calendars, as well as on the covers of three quilting magazines.”