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Kim Johnson ReportingUtah is home to some amazing quilters and quilt designers. In fact, Better Homes and Gardens' magazine, American Patchwork and Quilting is paying a visit to a well known Utahn this week.
Even if you own your own company, and design fabrics for another company in New York, it's still not every day that a major magazine comes to photograph your home at Christmastime.
Nancy Halvorsen, Quilt designer, "Art to Heart": "I've done a lot of interviews with other magazines but not had anyone want to come to my house, so I had to scramble a little bit and get my quilts here, but it's pretty exciting."
Jennifer Keltner, Senior Editor, American Patchwork and Quilting: "Nancy's work is really well-respected in the quilting community and we know our readers love her patterns and fabrics. So the opportunity to come here and photograph her work in her home setting is something our readers will love to see."
Fourteen years ago Halvorsen started publishing her quilt patterns and selling them to local quilt shops.
Nancy Halvorsen: From there I went to the international quilt market and picked up distributors worldwide. And it just kind of exploded into a huge venture and went from there."
To date Nancy has published 29 books of quilt patterns under her company name Art to Heart. She says she enjoys decorating with her quilted creations in non-traditional ways.
Nancy Halvorsen: "Like here is this table runner. It doesn't have to lay flat on the table, you can throw it over and make it more of a dimensional arrangement."
And quilts don't have to lay flat either, she says. One of her nativity quilts is coming out of a trunk. Her gift bags can be used, of course, for gifts, or as she's shown in her bathroom, to decorate the towels. ' Whether its a quilted candy dish, bottle cover, place mat, ornament, stocking or pot holder, Nancy has patterns for just about everything you'd need to make a home-spun Christmas.
The article on Nancy Halvorsen will appear in the December 2006 of American Patchwork and quilting.
