Bonnie K. Hunter is passionate about 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 became her full time career, Bonnie was the owner and designer of “Needle In A Haystack!!” creating over 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. Bonnie is also a licensed massage therapist, nationally certified in therapeutic massage and body work.

But quilting has always been Bonnie’s first love. She has been machine quilting for 19 years and professionally longarm machine quilting for the public for 13 years. 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 is dedicated to continuing the traditions of quilting. She enjoys meeting with quilters, teaching workshops and lecturing to quilt guilds all over the USA, challenging quilters to break the rules, think outside the box, and find what brings them joy. 

Catch up with Bonnie’s doings through her extensive website at Quiltville.com. You will find Quiltville’s calendar for lectures and workshops, tips and tricks, technique 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 email list, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it has become a hot spot for mystery quilters with focus on using scraps and stash.

When not traveling and teaching, she spends her time piecing scrap quilts, enjoying the peaceful reward of hand quilting as much as machine quilting, and loving life in her wooded surroundings in beautiful rural Wallburg, North Carolina. She and her husband, Dave, are the proud parents of two grown sons, Jason and Jeffrey. They round out their household with two dogs, Buddy and Sadie. Three studio cats, Oscar, Emmy and Chloe, keep Bonnie company while she designs, quilts and plays happily with her fabric.

Jan has loved needle and thread dancing through fabric since her Mom introduced her to sewing at the young age of 8. What began as a love of the sewing machine humming while stitching doll clothes, and eventually her own clothing, blossomed into a love for quilting, and now in mid-life a love for the gentle time spent in the fine handwork of appliqué and embroidery.

Inspired by things vintage, stitched by our sisters of old, she gets lost in books of antique quilts and vintage embroidery, scouring through much loved quilts and embroidery techniques and stitches from the past. Fascinated with things small, the challenge of small pieced and appliquéd quilts has lent imagination to new designs.

A seamstress, quilter, appliqué enthusiast, teacher, and pattern designer, she has 42 years of sewing and needle work experience. What was once a personal creative outlet has transcended into a desire to share and inspire others to enjoy the stitching journey.  Her love of sewing and designing blossomed into her company "The Graham Cracker Collection".  She was invited by Elly Sienkiewicz, nationally known author and teacher, to be the guest designer of the ancillary projects in Elly's latest book, "Baltimore Elegance", currently available from C&T Publishing.  For the past several years, Jan has taught at the Elly Sienkiewicz Applique Academy in historic Williamsburg, Virginia.  She is also a regular teacher at The Olde Green Cupboard in Jacksonville.

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