About Me

I have been sewing ever since I could sit up straight. There is just something unexplainable about the joy of fabric running through your fingers to the whirring sound of a sewing machine needle going up and down! I became a dressmaker early on as a necessity. I still haven’t figured out if I have no hips or no waist, but being built with no curves means no shopping in the women’s department! Thank God for dear Mrs. Phillips, my Home Ec, teacher who oversaw my first real dress! In 1994, I joined the “you have breast cancer” club and through this experience, I began quilting. It’s so easy to carry all of those little pieces with you while you sit through endless doctor appointments. What a gift! I may never have begun quilting without that push. I thankfully joined the breast cancer survivor club! I immediately quit my job and went to work at a wonderful quilt shop in Kissimmee, FL. There, I was encouraged to teach classes and was soon developing my own quilt designs and teaching them. This led to the birth of Itza Lulu Designs and the publishing of my patterns.

Having grown up, and I use that term loosely, in upstate NY, when I moved to the south with my wasband, it was under protest and after whining for 20 years, I slowly made my way back up the east coast, teaching all along the way.

I truly believe that quilting is supposed to be a fun, stress-free time in your busy life and therefore all of my patterns and classes are designed to that end, quick and easy!

This is the much abridged version of my life. Stay tuned for the really exciting parts which will be at a book store near you one day!