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Hello!
Welcome
to my Green Mountain Quilt Studio website.
My name is Paula Doyle, and I am a quilter.
I make quilts, design and write patterns for quilts, teach classes
on various aspects of quilting, give talks about quilting, and when I’m
not doing any of those things I’m probably dreaming about quilts! My
classes and talks are done on a “for hire” basis, usually to groups or
under contract to a quilt shop. I guess
I would describe my style as that I like to take something which
looks intricate and find the easy way of doing it, and
I just love showing people
how! Most recently I have come up with an idea for making small scale
quilts and quilted projects which I call Mini-Mosaics, which will allow
you to make things like painless and perfect 3” Ohio Stars! Interested?
Watch my video to learn more. Drop me a line or give me a ring. Happy
Quilting! Paula
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 Sandown
2009 - 1st Bedsize Quilt |
| 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. |
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