Linda Schmidt
Short Attention
Span Quilting

Enjoy some poetry, a little laughter, a bit of imagination, and a lot of passion for our craft through a trunk show with quilts and garments demonstrating more than 25 quilts and 15 ensembles, exhibiting a wide range of styles, techniques, fabrics, patterns and themes.

Talk and trunk show with quilts and garments. More than 25 quilts and 15 ensembles, traditional to contemporary,  exhibiting a wide range of styles, techniques, fabrics,  patterns and themes. Some poetry, a little laughter, a  bit of imagination, and a lot of passion for our craft.

Linda comes from a long line of quilting women and started her first quilt when she was eight years old.  She has made hundreds of quilts since then, having won over 250 ribbons from local, national and international quilting exhibitions. She teaches quilting nationally and internationally, does trunk shows with both quilts and garments, is a secretary for the City of Dublin, was a member of the Alameda County Art Commission for six years and Chairman of it for two years. She is a musician, an active member of Amador Valley Quilters, IQA, AQS, and NQA and was a founding member of the Network for Wearable Art. She has four part-time paying jobs, three children, one husband, a five-bedroom house she cleans herself, two flutes, two guitars, a piano and a B. A. in French that has suddenly ceased to be totally useless. In her spare time, she writes really bad poetry and is learning sign language. The bottom line is that there is nothing she likes better than to talk to people about quilting, unless it is making quilts and wearable art, myself. She has an eclectic taste in quilts and quilters, an insatiably inquiring mind and a sincere desire to help others learn what they need to know in order to do what needs to be done.