Froncie Quinn, the co-author of Enduring Grace: Quilts from the
Shelburne Museum, is a museum licensed pattern writer. Her patterns
are authentic to the original quilts and include instructions for both hand and quick-piecing methods. They also include the history of the quilt,
as her goal is to educate the quilter in addition to offering different methods of construction. Froncie is licensed to make museum quilt reproduction patterns from antique quilts in the collections of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the Vermont Quilt Festival,
Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, and the Lancaster Quilt
and Textile Museum in Pennsylvania.
Froncie‘s patterns have been published in Miniature Quilts magazine, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine and others. She has also appeared on Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson, show #922. Her first collection for
Red Rooster Fabrics was In the Time of Toile, a line of authentic early nineteenth century fabrics inspired by an appliquéd counterpane in the Shelburne Museum collection. The fabrics are historically accurate to
the time period in design and color. Florrie‘s Favorites, Froncie‘s
second collection, is based on fabrics in the quilts of Florence Peto, an accomplished quiltmaker and quilt historian who was instrumental in acquiring and documenting the quilts in the Shelburne Museum‘s
collection in the 1950s.
Froncie is the owner of HOOPLA, a quilt pattern design business. Visit her website: www.hooplapatterns.com to get acquainted with this prolific designer and quilter.
