About Me

I was never supposed to quilt. My mother tried to teach me to sew when I was young and declared me “un-teachable” so I almost never picked it up again. I gave quilting a try by accident when my best friend wanted to get into quilting in the 90s, and like a good friend, I jumped in and did it with her. I became completely obsessed with quilting, and now I’ve got 25+ years of quilting experience because I just couldn’t quit!

I opened my quilt retreat center, Camellia Palms Retreat Center, in 2019, and since then, we’ve hosted over 4,000 women on quilting, sewing, crafting, and creative retreats.

That was also the year I started teaching quilting and I’ve had the absolute pleasure of teaching hundreds of women how to improve their quilting skills for the past 5 years. In 2024, I launched my online quilt community + courses, Quilt Queens.