Quilters Companion

Profile   Christa Watson

Christa discovered quilting in 1994, when she was a young married college student, but like most of us, her sewing journey began in her childhood. When she was about four years old she hand-sewed a pincushion, and her mother — like all proud mothers — “still keeps it in her sewing box”, Christa shares.

When discussing the first quilt she made, Christa says, “I made it for my husband; we’d been married for about a year. I knew nothing about seam allowances and wanted to make a throw

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