Jan Magee, Editor-in-Chief
First as a Quilters Newsletter subscriber, then as its senior editor, and since 2006 as the editor-in-chief, I’ve indulged my passion for quilting with this magazine for more than two decades. I subscribed on the very day I started my first quilt class and fell hard and fast for this quilting thing, soaking up everything I could about the craft and the history and everything related to it.
Before I had even mastered the basics, I discovered art quilts (thanks to QN) and moved down that path, experimenting with ideas expressed in fabric and entering my work in shows and exhibits. From being a “machine queen,” I’ve since worked my way back to a deep appreciation for traditional and contemporary patchwork and appliqué–by hand even! Now, alternating back and forth between making art and traditional quilts makes me happiest. Sometimes it’s the creative outlet I crave; sometimes, I just want to sew and let my thoughts wander.
I’m lucky to be able to work with quilts (and quilters) all day at the office and then go home and sew on my own projects. I’m also on the Board of Directors for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. But for variety, a girl’s got to have some other interests other than quilts, too. For me, that would be gardening, hiking in the Rockies, and border collies and herding trials. My own border collie, Echo, doesn’t compete, but we’re first-rate spectators. And yes, she has her very own quilt, of course.
