(Moretown, VT) - Organizes the group quilt projects. Addicted to quilting! Creator of this website. Owner of her mom's 1974 Bernina. Creates a charity quilt with two co-workers each year. Click here to see JQR (Jeb's Quilt Room) JQR.
And Check out Jeb's favorite Quilt Store - Cabin Fever Quilts - the BEST and MOST batiks ever!
Jeb
(Marcellus, NY) - Jeb's sister. The best seamstress in the galaxy! Thank you for hosting the all girls weekend to complete the Battered Women's quilt - it's where it all began... And what a fun time!
Helen
(Rochester, NY) - Jeb's sister. One of the artists in the family. Someday we'll make a quilt with her hand crafted stencils which are SO amazing!
BZ(Louise)
(Williston, VT) - Jeb's sister-in-law. Carol has been in the family since Jeb was a teenager - she's much more of a sister than an in-law. Carol makes many crafts for her church and family. She initiated the baby quilt project for her granddaughter, Ava.
Carol
(Staatsburg, NY) - Jeb's neice & Colette's sister. Leslie has the sewing machine that gives Jeb sewing machine envy!
Leslie
(Poughquag, NY) - Leslie's sister. Another artist in the family - water color, oil, interior design.
Colette
(Red Lion, PA) - Jeb's neice. Her first quilt was the MS Quilt. She bought a how-to quilt book to get started.
Brenda
(San Diego, CA) - Helen's daughter. She says she's going to buy her own sewing machine so she can stop borrowing one! Jill initiated the Cancer Quilt project and a friend is Executive President of the Moonlight Cancer Foundation.
Jill
(Brooklyn, NY) - Helen's daughter. Another artist! She hooked us up with Linda Teufel (Kathleen modeled for Linda's book on KOOS). Kathleen was the first woman to complete a marathon with an artifical heart valve.
Kathleen
Kim Bouchard (Burlington, VT) - Carol's daughter - she did an awesome job on her niece Ava's baby quilt.
Kim
Sara Bouchard (Aliso Viejo,CA) - Carol's daughter - she also worked on her niece Ava's baby quilt.
Sara
Barbara Cornish (North Yarmouth, ME)- Carol's sister-in-law. Barb worked on Ava's baby quilt.
Barbara
Fran Bouchard (St Albans, VT and winters in Florida) - did a great needlepoint block for Ava's baby quilt.
Fran
Lisa Raine (Stamford, CT) - Leslie and Colette's Sister. She worked on the Shelter quilt. She and Leslie drove up in Leslie's sports car which was a hit at the weekend. Somewhere we have pictures of several of my nieces posing with the car!
Lisa
Marcelle Bouchard(Burlington, VT) - This is our Mom and Memere (grandmother). Her granchildren call her 'Mim' which is short for Memere. Sadly, Mom has alzheimers. After living her entire life in St. Albans, she now resides at Birchwood Nursing Home. The picture of her was taken on her 90th birthday - before AZ took her memories of us away. She would have loved to see this website with all her family. Mom/Mim worked on the Shelter quilt with failing eyesight - she had a great weekend with all the women in her family!! We will never forget you!!
Mom/Mim
Laura Bouchard (Mineville, NY) - worked on the Shelter quilt. She was very new to the family - not even married to Nick yet and had never met most of the family. Yet she drove with Carol, Mim and Jeb in Carol's van from Vermont to NY (Helen's home) for the weekend event. Her Triamisu is still talked about today! Mmmm!
Laura
(Charlotte, VT) - Jeb's quilt friend - they "met" via a VT newspaper article regarding quilt donations to the Katrina victims. She has quilted charity quilts for the group with her Gammill quilting machine. She is an avid supporter of Pug Rescue.
Tammy
(Richmond, VT) - lifelong friend of Jeb.
(Poughkeepsie, NY) - Colette's friend. She tells me she has been learing to quilt slowly over the past 8 years and is very excited to join the group!
Carol Herles (Hyde Park, NY) - Maryellen's quilting teacher. Works at the Quilted Bear Den, a new shop in Hyde Park. She has been sewing for most of her life. Her Mom got her started around age 7. She started quilting in the early 80's and just kept going. She's replacing Maryellen on the book project.