Utah Quilt Guild

  My name is Laura Edwards, and I would be honored to serve as your President-Elect for the Utah State Quilt Guild. My journey to quilting wasn't exactly a straight path. I learned to sew at an early age, but my first introduction to quilting didn't inspire me. I remember long hours of hand stitching flower patterns onto solid-colored fabric, and while I appreciated the craftsmanship, I was much more drawn to the vibrant colors, textures, and creativity of embroidery. Years later, after marriage and many of life's adventures, I found myself sitting on my living room floor with a stack of old golf shirts, a cardboard template, and a pair of craft scissors. I traced as many squares as I could onto those shirts with a pen, cut them out by hand, and once I had a couple hundred squares, I sewed them back together. The first blocks formed neat diagonal patterns, but before long they became a wonderfully mismatched collection of colors and memories. An experienced quilter friend s...