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Eileen Bahring Sullivan<\/h3>\n

\"EileenArtist, quilt maker, pattern designer, teacher and lecturer are just of few of the titles that describe Eileen.\u00a0 With a B.S and 5th year in art education she has gone from Art teacher, to artist, to quilt teacher and business entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

A desire to go beyond<\/i> what she had learned as a beginning quilt maker and create one -of -a -kind pieces of art led to years of developing alternate methods that had previously not been available.\u00a0 She was among the first to present foundation piecing<\/i> as a new way to create art quilts.\u00a0 Her quilt When Grandmother’s Lily Garden Blooms<\/u><\/i> created in the late 1980’s was the first of its kind to win a blue ribbon at the prestigious American Quilter’s Society show and is in the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.<\/p>\n

\"RememberingEileen’s quilts have been exhibited at most major quilt events in the U.S. as well as Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n

Two of her quilts were finalists for the 100 Best Quilts of the 20th Century sponsored by Quilts Inc and PRIMEDIA Publishing.<\/p>\n

She has appeared on Simply Quilts<\/u> with Alex Anderson and been a design contributor to many books on foundation piecing by Jane Hall, The Foundation Piecer, and Joen Wolfrom, among others.<\/p>\n

President Jimmy Carter was the recipient of a 75th birthday quilt commissioned by Habitat for Humanity, designed by Eileen, and completed by the quilters of Plains, GA.<\/p>\n

Teaching and lecturing has taken her throughout the country to present her methods<\/i> to students and encourage them to move forward with their work.<\/p>\n