Certified Teachers Program

Linda began quilting in 1993 and teaching in 1994. Linda received her National Quilting Association Teacher Certification in 1999. She has been nominated three times (2001, 2004 and 2008) for Professional Quilter Magazine's Teacher of the Year award.

Linda was on the faculty for the 2009 Quilters Heritage Celebration, 2009 Machine Quilters Exposition and the 2009 Mid Appalachian Quilters Conference. She was on the 2008 and 2009 NQA Show faculty in Columbus, Ohio. In August 2007 she taped a quilting segment for EBRUTV, Somerset, New Jersey. She has been part of the faculty at the New Jersey Quilt Convention since 2005 and was the featured teacher at the Frost Valley Quilting Weekend in 2004. Linda has taught in Bermuda twice and on three quilting cruises. Linda is the 2009 All Star at the New Jersey Quilt Convention.

Linda and business partner Merry May (under their business Double Trouble Studios) present Bed, Breakfast & Quilt Getaways — affectionately known as "BBQ". Linda is the co-author of the new book Insiders Guide to Quilting Careers with Merry May. They will have a series of articles entitled "Sew Thrifty" starting in Quilt Magazine, and another series entitled "Don't Quit Your Day Job...Yet!" for the NQA Quilting Quarterly. They will have a new pattern line called "Stash Bashers" coming in fall of 2009.

Linda has done commission work for Elizabeth's Studio, Shamash & Sons, Kreinik Thread Manufacturing Company and Sullivans, USA. Her work has appeared in Quilting Now Magazine, The Professional Quilter, Quilt Almanac, QUILT Magazine and the NQA Quilting Quarterly. She currently serves as a marketing consultant for Elizabeth's Studio.

Linda is co-owner (with daughter, Sarah) of Two Country Quilters, a long arm machine quilting business. Two Country Quilters also vends hard-to-find and specialty quilting items at New Jersey quilt shows. She is co-owner of Double Trouble Studios (with Merry May).

She lives in Manalapan, New Jersey with her husband Allan, daughter Sarah and her golden retriever, Amber Lynn, all of whom are involved in quilting! When she is not quilting, Linda enjoys Caribbean cruising, reading trashy novels and watching NCIS, any of the Star Trek series, as well as any of the CSI series. Her website is www.twocountryquilters.com.