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Featured Artist ~ Linda
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Features
Artist for QA’s 2010 show is Linda Tellesbo, an
award-winning quilter originally from Washington’s
Skagit Valley. While her education and career were
devoted mostly to hard numbers (business and finance),
Linda is at heart an artist. |
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In 1989 she bought a small
quilt kit featuring hearts. Disappointed that her
hearts did not turn out to her standards, she took her
first quilting class – from Nancy Ann Twelker at Calico
Basket – and, as they say, a star was born! Linda loved
the piecing side of quilting and began producing quilt
after beautiful patterns. |
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Retirement gave
her more time to develop her machine quilting skills so
she bought an A-1 longarm quilting machine, and also
began to piece more-complicated quilt patterns,
including experimenting with her own whole-cloth quilt
designs. Soon Linda bought a six-needle embroidery
machine to embellish her quilting projects. |
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With the
purchase of the longarm machine, Linda started Dancing
Threads, a business to provide machine-quilting services for
customers. Her reputations spread as her customers’ quilts
began winning ribbons at local shows. One of Linda’s own
quilts, “Feathers for Linda” won a ribbon at the prestigious
Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters’ (APNQ) 2006
Quiltfest. Her quilts have also won Viewer’s Choice at QA
shows in 2005 and 2006, at Block Party shows in 2008 and
2009, and at the Busy Bees show in 2009. She has won many
other ribbons in individual categories at these guild
shows. She was also a featured artist at the LaConner
museum from January to March of 2008. |
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Her skill with numbers is still
in use: Linda has served as Treasurer for QA and for APNQ.
She volunteered to do the quilting on the 2009 QA Raffle
Quilt, one of the highest money-making raffle quilts ever
for the guild. |
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Linda currently lives just north
of Woodinville, WA with her two best friends, cats Patches
and Bobbin, and maintains close ties with her large extended
family in Mount Vernon. |
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