Elsie is a member of many different quilt-related organizations and teaches basic and advanced skills at several shops in the area where she lives. Having appeared in many publications, including Oxmoor House's Great American Quilts series and Quilter's Newsletter Magazine , her quilts garner many prestigious awards each year. 2000 and 1st place in the Professional Traditional Pieced category at International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. A quilt requires special attention to prolong its beauty and useful life. Picture Perfect Quilts Get tips for preparing, hanging and photographing your quilt for juried shows and how to submit them for publication.
Photographs make useful records for documentation and are fun just to have.
No special equipment is required to take good photos of quilts-just a little natural light, a snapshot camera, film and a place to hang the quilt. Learn everything you need to know for successful picture-taking. You'll walk through a small publishing house and see how a quilt photograph sent in a letter becomes a pattern or cover quilt. Meet the friendly people who make it happen and experience a day in the life of a quilt magazine editor. Hand Quilting Improve your hand quilting stitch with Elsie's techniques for making tiny, even stitches.