PVQA Quilt Show 2027
Featured Speaker
Linda Schmidt
Saturday, February 27, 2027 

Linda S. Schmidt started making her first quilt at the age of 8, and has made most of her own clothes since she was 12.  She comes from a long line of quilting women, and still uses some elements of traditional quilting, but most of her work involves wearable art, portraits, landscapes, modern and liturgical art. 

 

Linda has won over 300 ribbons and prizes Including First Place, Best of Show and Judge’s Choice & Viewers’ Choice at many of the prestigious quilt shows in the US.  She has taught, spoken, judged quilts and exhibited nationally and internationally since 1993.  She is also a 4-time Fairfield and Bernina fashion designer, writer, and musician, and makes commission quilts for public and private spaces.  She teaches for www.AcademyOfQuilting.com, and was  chosen by the Machine Quilting Magazine as Professional Quilter of the Year in 2003.  She has held several positions in the Amador Valley Quilters including Historian, Librarian, and President for 1994-95 and 2016-2017.

 

Her quilting philosophy echoes that of Mary Theresa - “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”  Quilting is very important to her, as a creative outlet and as a connection to all of those who ever took pieces of cloth and stitched them together to fill empty spaces with beauty and empty hands with comfort.  She says “That’s our job, that’s what we’re here for, and don’t let anybody tell you different.”  Her talks are not lectures, they are heart-to-heart revelations of her life, her sorrows and joys, her poetry and impressionist moments of her life as a quilt artist.  

 

She has two children, four grandchildren, five guitars, three flutes, one piano, 5 million beads,one husband, a oddly useful BA in French, and a 5-bedroom house she cleans herself,  and writes good music and bad poetry in her spare time.