I love every aspect of quilting! I love to design and make quilts, teach quilting classes, hang out in the Quiltscapes studio and do custom free-motion quilting for clients on my longarm quilting machine, Old Betsy! I constantly think about quilting, dream about quilting, talk about quilting, and can hardly wait to get up in the mornings to get quilting! Fabric speaks to me, and I listen... You might say I'm a little bit passionate about quilting....
Quilting is a connection to generations of women in my family. I began sewing as a child, and have many fond memories of spending time in the sewing room with my mother and two sisters. I pretty much grew up under a quilt frame, helping my mom tie quilts, eventually learning to hand-quilt whole-cloth tricot wedding quilts with my Grandma. I remember looking over my Great-grandma's shoulder as she pieced countless quilts for charity and family.
My first pieced quilt was a log cabin quilt that my Mother had begun shortly before her death in 1999. It would have been her first pieced quilt too. I finished the quilt and gave it to my Dad the next Christmas. It was made with love and tears, and healed my grief with every stitch. I was hooked! And as history has a way of repeating itself, I now enjoy spending time in the sewing room with my own daughters. Each of them are accomplished quilters as well and have received numerous awards and recognition for their sewing and quiltmaking. A quilting demonstration took one of my girls to a national 4-H competition in 2009.
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| Twenty-year-old triplets and their "Turning Twenty" quilts |
Working at home gives me the flexibility to pursue other passions including singing. I love performing in community theatre productions, both onstage (Annie Oakley, Reverend Mother Abbess, Joseph's Narrator) or as a choral director. My quartet, OneVoice, has performed together for over 17 years and produced 3 CDs. And as of April 2012, I'm a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, performing weekly broadcasts of Music and the Spoken Word. I also enjoy reading, arranging music, desktop publishing, spending time in the kitchen, and have compiled several cookbooks. My dear husband is so supportive of my interests, and even emptied out and rearranged my sewing room at one time to make it more accessible... love him! Our “Superwonderboy” soldier just finished his deployment in Afghanistan, one of our beautiful daughters is currently serving an LDS church mission in Nagoya, Japan. You can usually find my girls and I hanging out in the sewing room with our cat, Charlie.
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| Stott Family |
