I wanted to tell Northwest Quiters how much I enjoyed the show, and appreciated the honor of being "featured quilter"!. It was great fun, and I loved the show at that venue...it is so much more spacious than it was at PSU, and the lay-out of having the vendors around the perimeter of the show works very well. I wish I had had a voice to talk with all the quilters I knew and the new ones I met there, but I know you can't control weird things like getting a virus! Oh well! Thank you to NWQ for asking me to be the "featured qulter" for the 29th annual quilt show, and making me finish so many UFO's!!

Suzette DeCourcey Shoulders
Crazy-Patch Lady

A quilter for 28 years now, Suzette started embroidering at the age of 4, learned to sew at 24, and fell in love with patchwork and quilting in 1975. She has B.S. and Ed. M. Degrees in education from Oregon State University, so teaching and public speaking are natural for her. She's been creating crazy-patch for more than twenty years now and taught at shops in the Portland area for 17 years, including several years at Daisy Kingdom. She has created many "crazy" garments and small crazy quilts, which will be on display at the Northwest Quilters' annual show, along with her quilts of patchwork, both hand and machine-pieced. She has had works shown in the Columbia Stitchers' Guild show and Northwest Quilters' Annual Show in Portland and in the juried Labor Day show put on by the Marin Needlearts Guild in the Bay Area. Suzette was a lecturer for the Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters show in Seattle, and this last year donated a wallhanging to their travelling exhibit , "Telling Secrets".

In addition to teaching crazy-patch, silk ribbon embroidery, hand-quilting and hand-piecing at Mountain Country Mercantile in Bend, OR, she also teaches beaded embroidery, "watercolor quilts", and dimensional embellishments for quilters. She has taught crazy-patch workshops for Quilters' Anonymous in Seattle and for the Marin Needlearts Guild in California. In September of 2003 she will be teaching and lecturing at Alston Hall College in Lancashire, England, and is booking now for 2004 teaching and lecture engagements. Suzette's collection of slides of crazy-patch quilts and garments is very extensive, and she enjoys sharing it and her collection of antique and contemporary crazy-patch quilts and clothing with a receptive audience. Her background in education makes her particularly adept at instruction, and her enthusiasm for crazy-patch and its stitches is very contagious.

A good volunteer as well as a teacher, Suzette served on the board of Northwest Quilters for 9 years, and in 1998 was their president. She misses many of the NWQ members and is thrilled to be the "featured quilter" for the 2003 show! After moving to Bend, Suzette has enjoyed joining the Mt. Bachelor Quilt Guild and being involved in their group.

If you wish to hire Suzette to teach for guild workshops, please contact her at: suzette@coinet.com