Eleanor Burns Biography

Over 30 years ago Eleanor Burns introduced her first Quilt in a Day book beginning a quilt-making revolution. She invited all types of sewers to participate in an age-old tradition using her unique style; a diverse combination of cutting and sewing applications which replaced scissors and templates with rips and strips bringing rotary speed to patchwork. She also introduced an incredibly rapid stitching system applying the method of assembly-line sewing to piecework. Her concise step-by-step directions were easy to grasp allowing anyone to be successful at making a quilt. Eleanor Burns gave quilt makers techniques that compacted months into merely a day -- a quilt in a day. Today as she continues to passionately devote herself to nurturing and motivating thousands of want-to be quilters with needed self-confidence her name and techniques have become synonymous with quiltmaking.
Since 1978 when Eleanor self-published that first book Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern she has become a prolific author revered teacher trainer popular television personality and celebrated industry role model. She has authored over 80 additional books that sell at a rate of well over 6500 per week. She has trained thousands of instructors throughout the world who teach her quiltmaking methods. In 1990 Eleanor pioneered the way people view quiltmaking with television. Her Quilt in a Day TV series began airing on PBS and is still broadcasting nationwide and abroad even teaching in Japan. Adding to all of that she has developed her own Signature” fabric lines several special edition sewing machines and received numerous awards and recognition for her lifetime of achievements.

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