About
Paula is a lifelong sewer who was shown the basics of patchwork and quilting at the age of 10 by her grandmother. However, this early introduction to the craft didn’t really take root until 1990 when she and her husband were living in Connecticut and she was expecting her son. She made a fairly basic baby quilt but was frustrated that the end result wasn’t as good as she hoped, so when they moved to Montreal six weeks after Jonathan was born, she signed up for quilting classes at Maison du Calico in Pointe Claire, Quebec. There, a wonderful quilting teacher named Margaret opened a whole new world for her and she hasn’t looked back. She went on to take several other courses including a wonderful 2 week session with Jinny Beyer. In her previous professional life she had been a corporate trainer, so before she knew it she was busy designing training courses on how to make quilts. To start with she ran courses anywhere they’d let her, like the Newcomers Club in Beaconsfield, Quebec. Her husband’s job then got them moved back to Connecticut where she taught quilting at the local YWCA and the Poor Clares’ Monastery in Stamford. In August 1995 she moved back to England with her family. Just down the road from her house was an empty shop and she opened Green Mountain Quilts and Crafts on the 1st of November 1995 which she ran successfully until April of this year. Paula is now focusing on giving lectures and classes she has developed over the years and using her design skills to develop new patterns.