Joan Bergsund

Moving to Tiburon in l969, we lived at Seafirth on the bay. Our workshop got all the action. I sewed, my husband carved shorebirds, and the kids puttered with their projects. It was our happy place.

Quilting was all the rage in 1980. My mother and I loved the old fashioned quilts. We cut out squares, pieced them together, creating one quilt after another. I eventually focused on the whole cloth sampler, with a million stitches illustrating quilting designs, all stitched by hand. Machine quilting had yet to become popular.