Tina is a longarm quilter, sewist, and nurse. She has been quilting for six years but sewing for over twenty-five. Her love of sewing is inspired primarily by her mother. She began sewing in high school, but her love of quilting came many years later when she bought a book and taught herself how to quilt on her domestic machine. Her first longarm machine came shortly after, and her passion for quilting was ignited a few years later when she attended her first quilting retreat and “found her people.” That first retreat took her beyond the act of quilting, and she fell in love with the community of people she now counts as her closest friends. She encourages you to experience the art of quilting with her and to build lasting friendships during one of her classes. After all, only quilters understand the act of buying a fabric bundle so beautiful you never want to take the ribbon off… only to cut it up into tiny pieces and sew them back together!