Lana Russel – Handi Quilter National Educator Lana
learned to sew at age eleven at her local sewing store.
While garment sewing was her foundation, once she discovered
quilting in 2001 while taking a year’s sabbatical from her
career as a sixth-grade teacher, she found her zeal. Her
creativity using textiles continued and she began teaching
quilting classes at local quilt shops. Before she knew it,
she had a hefty stack of quilt tops awaiting the finishing
touch of quilting. She didn’t want someone else to complete
her projects, so she set about learning all types of
quilt-as-you-go and free-motion quilting methods using a
domestic machine.She retired from teaching in public schools in 2014 and soon after discovered exactly what she had been looking for: the HQ Simply Sixteen® on the HQ Little Foot® frame. It was a smaller, more affordable, movable longarm machine with a small footprint. She fell in love with its ease of operation and learned to free-motion quilt and do ruler work and pantographs while making a dent in her UFO stack. It didn’t take too long before her curiosity about Pro-Stitcher led her to upgrade to the HQ Forte® with Pro-Stitcher, Pro-Stitcher Designer, and Catalog, and she has enjoyed learning to use them to their fullest potential. lana@lanaquilts.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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