Bonnie K Hunter is passionate about quilt quilting,
focusing mainly on scrap quilts with the simple feeling of “making do”. She started her love affair with quilting in
a home economics class her senior year of high school in 1980 and has never
looked back. Before quilting becaue her
full time career, Bonnie was the owner and designer of Needle in a Haystack!! Creating
more than 70 patterns for dolls and stuffed animals with a country primitive
feel.
Many of her designs were licensed through the Butterick
Pattern Company, translated into 7 languages and sold around the globe through
fabric stores. But quilting has always
been Bonnie’s first love. She has been
machine quilting since 1989 and professionally long arm quilting for the public
since 1995, retiring in 2009 when she long longer had the time due to her
teaching, traveling and writing schedule. She has been featured in magazines
both for her quilt patterns and articles she has written on scrap management and
using that stash to its full potential.
Bonnie received the 2011 “Teacher of the Year” award
through a global internet poll hosted via Sew Cal Gal, and was completely
flabbergasted, not to mention honored and humbled at the same time.
Dedicated to continuing the traditions of quilting,
Bonnie enjoys meeting with quilters, teaching workshops and lecturing to quilt
guilds all over the world, challenging quilters to break the rules, think
outside the box, and find what brings them joy.
When not traveling and teaching, she spends her time
piecing scrap quilts, enjoying the peaceful reward of English paper piecing
and hand quilting as much as machine
work, and loving life in her wooded surroundings in beautiful rural Wallburg,
North Carolina, A suburb of Winston-Salem.
She and her husband, Dave are the proud parents of two grown sons,
Jason, and Jeffrey. They round out their
household with Sadie the dog and two cats –Emmy Lou, who loves life inside
only, an Chloe who only loves life on the outside—keeping Bonnie company while
she designs, quilts and plays happily with her fabric.
Bonnie also writes a regular column for Quiltmaker
Magazine entitled "Addicted to Scraps" with the main intention to
help you to put various aspects of your own Scrap Users System to good use!
Catch up with Bonnie’s doings through her extensive
website at Quiltville.com. There you
will find Quiltville’s calendar for lectures and workshops, tips and tricks,
techniques, tutorials and a long list of free quilt patterns to help you dig
into your scraps. From there, head over
to Quiltville.blogspot.com for Bonnie’s (almost) daily blog, Quiltville’s Quips
& Snips.
Her global email list, Quiltvillechat has become a hot spot for mystery quilters from all over the world with a focus
on using scraps and stash.
Don’t forget Facebook! Keep in real-time touch with Bonnie
on the Quiltville Friends Page.
Bonnie’s favorite motto? “The Best Things in Life are Quilted!!” of course!
