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life
with linda
artist
resume
As a fiber
artist I named Montana Quilts to reflect my Montana heritage.
I have made hundreds of quilts since I began quilting with my
grandmother Vande Sandt in 1976, my favorite was a star quilt
I am the author of Montana Star
Quilts a self published book about Native American
star quilts. Currently I am working on a turtle theme within or
around the star.
You
can learn more about me and Native American star quilts in my
book "Montana Star Quilts".
"My
journey with star quilts began in 1976 in Havre, Montana, when
I discovered my grandmother's 1937 Needlecraft Supply Company
flier advertising three star quilts. I told my grandmother
that I was going to make a star quilt ...I then proceeded
to cut hundreds of diamonds in an array of different colors...."
(excerpt from "Montana
Star Quilts" by Linda Parker)
With
the years passed, my knowledge of Native American star quilt
traditions grew, a piece at a time. It wasn't long before
I learned star quilts are one of the most valuable gifts one can
give or receive at a give-a-way or for any other Indian ceremony.
So
if
you want to learn more about the history and tradition
of Native American star quilts, then you've come to the best place
by discovering "Montana Star Quilts"
Some
of the Things the Book does not tell you
Montana
Quilts currently resides in an old dilapidated mining shack on
the edge of the mountains in Helena with one small stained glass
window, 2 goldfish, 2 cockatiels, 1 grandson, many deer wandering
through the yard eating the flowers, the skunk who has babies
under the really ancient shack in the back yard and let's not
forget the squirrel who had her babies in the kitchen ceiling
last spring. We have a new Gammill in the studio-our studio was
a living room before we lived here. Now that fall has arrived
the skunks are gone, the squirrels are banned to the outside,
the deer have even seemed to move across town - kinda, the leaves
are dropping and the grandson Keagan has settled into 1st grade.
Jerry
Belgarde and I once quilted 4 queen size star quilts in a week.
Jerry is fast, she quilted two thirds to my one third. By the
end of the week we were both looking rather pale and in need of
sunlight.
I
was fortunate enough to have met Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson (
Grandma Snail ) while doing research for the book. My favorite
Grandma Snail lesson is
' if you wake up expecting good things to happen, they do.'
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