Lizzie's Legacy: More Quilts from a Pioneer Woman's Journal
Betsy Chutchian developed a passionate interest in fabric, quilts, sewing and history as a child. Learning to sew on her grandmother's treadle sewing machines and her aunt's 1940s Singer paved the way to quiltmaking.When she graduated in 1980 from the University of Texas at Arlington, she received an antique quilt top made by her paternal great-grandmother and great-aunt and taught herself to quilt. She began teaching quiltmaking in 1990.Chutchian's first book with The Kansas City Star wasGone to Texas, Quilts from a Pioneer Woman's Journal. She is co-author ofHistory Repeated, Block Exchange Quilts by the 19th Century Patchwork Divas. Chutchian is co-founder of the Patchwork Divas. Her first fabric line debuted in 2010.She lives in Grand Prairie, Texas, with her husband.