Marsha McCloskey ~ Eugene, OR

Marsha McCloskey is well known throughout the quilting world. A graphic arts major in college, she turned from printmaking to quilt making in 1969. She made patchwork gift items for craft fairs and gift shops in the Northwest and California for many years. In 1975 Marsha began to teach quilt making at her local quilt store. Since then she has taught classes and workshops for groups in the Seattle area where she lived for many years, as well as for conferences and quilt guilds. She is a highly regarded quilt instructor, having taught all over the United States and in eight foreign countries including: New Zealand, Holland, Belgium, France, Canada, Japan, Norway and Denmark.

Marsha specializes in Feathered Star designs. Her quilts have a traditional look, yet are an inspiration to quilters of every sort. Her exceptional sense of color encourages others to branch out into new color schemes and fabric uses. Marsha’s designs for multi-fabric, rotarycut and machine-pieced quilts can all be made by the average quilter. Her first book, Small Quilts was published in 1981 and is the book that countless quilters used to make their very first quilts. Since then she has written or co-authored over twenty books on quilt making.