Quilter’s Name: Elizabeth Cerri from Trinity, North Carolina
Name of Pattern: Cathedral Windows
Featured Date: 09-04-24
My name is Elizabeth Cerri. I live in Trinity, North Carolina with my husband Bill and our furbaby Nera. I have been quilting for over 25 years. I think I first fell in love with fabric as I had virtually no sewing experience, but I fell in love with 3″ squares on eBay. I always loved quilts and started researching online about them. I found out a woman I worked with at AOL was a quilter – she did it ALL by hand! I wanted to machine piece and quilt, so she started me on my journey. She started me on a simple Nine Patch and alternate heart block applique. I’ve attached a picture of the finished quilt. It took 6 months to do!
I immediately upgraded my old kenmore machine to a combination quilting/embroidery machine and proceeded to discover so many online stores, tutorials, quilting guilds, and FABRIC. My piecing improved dramatically with the 1/4″ foot I bought and can embroider edge-to-edge to simulate a long arm. Over the years I have made dozens of quilts, table runners, tuffets, etc. I’ve given most of them away to people I love and to preemie babies.
My current project is a Cathedral Window Quilt. It is so named because when you hold it up to the light, it looks like stained glass. I am gifting it to a friend in Ireland whom I met on a cooking competition show in England. My secondary passion is cooking and I got to appear on The World Cook in 2024, representing the USA.
Thanks!
Elizabeth
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