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About Quilting Adventures
After attending classes and seminars in other parts of the country, Barbara Quinby and Sue Coates formed Quilting Adventures - Hill Country Style in order to host 5-day quilting seminars in their own "backyard". They knew from personal experience that the beautiful scenery, enchanting wildlife and moderate climate of the Texas Hill Country provide a perfect environment for artistic endeavors like quilting. Come and enjoy the camaraderie and flavor of the Hill Country while learning new quilting skills from incredible instructors!

 

 

Quilting Adventures Newsletter
The team hopes to share their love of the Texas Hill Country with other quilters through their seminars and through this web site. There is much to tell, so they invite you to visit the Newsletter page periodically to catch up on the latest Hill Country and Quilting Adventures' seminar news. The newsletter will also keep you abreast of some of the team's latest personal adventures. So, by the time you arrive at one of the Quilting Adventures' seminars, you'll feel like they are old friends.

 


Visit Barbara's Gallery to get a peek at some of her recent quilting projects.

 

Meet Barbara Quinby
Barbara hails from Wisconsin and became a Texan 20 years ago when she transferred with IBM. She has been sewing since she was 12 years old, and most of her expertise was in garments as she made many of her business suits during her 23 year tenure as a project manager for IBM.

After retiring to the Texas Hill Country, Barbara and her husband set about building a home, breeding a few cows, and being certified as Master Naturalists. John is an avid photographer and the photos you see throughout the site are his. It was during this post-retirement time that Barbara was bitten by the quilting bug.

She enjoys all aspects of this new obsession, from design to piecing to hand and machine quilting; however, her favorite part of quilting is shopping for new fabric! She is involved in her local guild where she has served as Director of Membership and currently serves as 2nd Vice President - Workshops. Barbara brings her professional background, sewing expertise and her love of quilting to Quilting Adventures.

     
 

Remembering Sue Coates
Sue Coates was a vibrant woman, filled with enthusiasm for all things related to quilting. She shared her skills and friendship generously with those around her. If Sue had to miss a quilt class, retreat or bee, we all knew it must mean she was spending time with the family she adored -- four sons and ten grandchildren. Sue died tragically in an auto accident on October 4, 2007. Her laughter was delightful and we will remember it always. Visit our Remembering Sue page for more about her and her life.

 

 

Our Wonderful Team
The supporting members of Quilting Adventures are the wonderful team of Helen Ridgway (no e) and Anita Crane (as in whooping), Alice Kolb and Sharon Hull Dinsmore.

Anita is an Iowa farmer's daughter who manages the business processes and keeps us on track. Anita is the current President of our local Hill Country Quilt Guild.

Helen is from Mississippi and could be the heroine of a Eudora Welty story. She develops the marketing activities for QA. She has served in several offices of our local quilt guild including immediate past-President. Helen's Quilt Gallery is available on our Student Gallery in the Quilting Adventures Interactive web site.

 

 
     
Alice Kolb
   Alice Kolb travels nationally and internationally to share her love of the needle. She has authored two books, the most recent of which is Sew Crazy, Decorative Threads and Stitches. Alice has taken on the job of teacher coordinator, not only managing the 2008 faculty and their immediate support and travel needs, but also tackling the followup with the 2009 faculty.
     
Sharon Dinsmore
  

Sharon Hull Dinsmore is our webmaster and sends out most of the email communications to our students. She has helped us establish an online community for our students at Quilting Adventures Interactive. The first feature she added was the Quilting Adventures Student Gallery where previous students are invited to share pictures of their quilting projects with the world. Her latest project has been to extend our online community through a Quilting Adventures Student Forum where our Quilting Adventures students can keep in touch with one another. Sharon loves using the computer in fun ways too and teaches quilters to use the computer for design, fabric printing and machine embroidery.

     
The entire team is actively involved in seeing that your quilting experience in Texas puts a big smile on your face that will last until we see you again.


 
     
 

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