Bonnie K. Hunter is passionate about quilting, focusing
mainly on scrap quilts with the simple feeling of “making do.” She started her
love affair with quilting in a home economics class her senior year of high
school in 1980 and has never looked back.

Before quilting became her full time career, Bonnie was
the owner and designer of “Needle In A Haystack!!” creating over 70 patterns
for dolls and stuffed animals with a country primitive feel.  Many of her
designs were licensed through the Butterick Pattern Company, translated into 7
languages, and sold around the globe through fabric stores. Bonnie is
also a licensed massage therapist, nationally certified in therapeutic
massage and body work.

But quilting has always been Bonnie's first
love. She has been machine quilting for 19 years and professionally
longarm machine quilting for the public for 13 years.  She has been
featured in magazines both for her quilt patterns and articles she has written
on scrap management and using that stash to its full potential.

Bonnie is dedicated to continuing the traditions of
quilting.  She enjoys meeting with quilters, giving workshops and lectures
to quilters' guilds all over the USA, challenging quilters to break the rules,
think outside the box, and find what brings them joy. 

When not traveling and teaching, she spends her time
piecing scrap quilts, enjoying the peaceful reward of hand quilting as much as
machine quilting, and loving life in her wooded surroundings in beautiful rural
Wallburg, North Carolina. She and her husband Dave are the proud parents of two
grown sons, Jason and Jeffrey. They round out their household with two dogs,
Buddy and Sadie. Three studio cats, Oscar, Emmy and Chloe keep Bonnie company
while she designs, quilts and plays happily with her fabric.