Deb Karasik and Janet Mednick met a few short years ago in 2001, at a San Francisco Quilter's Guild 'Quiltaway' and became fast friends.
Almost immediately, they discovered they had VERY different quilting styles. Janet, the experienced, award winning, published quilter, loved to take traditional patterns and designs and give them new life with fabrics and colors. Deb, aka the 'Spike Queen' adored paper piecing and designing spikey quilts using bold, bright colors.
Putting differences aside, they started collaborating on quilts. It was amazing to both of them how much they found they could learn from each other. As the journey continues, they hope to keep the learning process and overall fun of sewing together an evident quality of all of their quilts.Their collaboration resulted in the "Quilt Mavens.
Besides teaching, they operate a website, www.quiltmavens.com, where they showcase their quilts in a gallery, provide patterns, paper piecing tools and supplies and their two instructional books, "Quilt Mavens: Perfect Paper Piecing" by Deb and Janet and "Quilts With An Attitude" authored by Deb.