about
Marsha

Marsha Anderson did not begin quilting until she received a wedding quilt from her husband’s Tennessee grandmother. Made from old shirts and dresses and backed with a blue plaid flannel, it inspired her to copy it in the fabrics of the day as a gift to a brother. With that quilt a passion was born!

For the most part Marsha is a self taught quilter. As with many quilters, she began sewing for her dolls at a very young age, then joined the local 4-H club at age 10. Over the next 8 years she won many blue ribbons and State Show honors for her sewing. In past lives she has worked as a registered nurse, done alterations and made window treatments. Her “real” job is sewing new skins (called envelopes) for antique fabric covered airplanes. She has made envelopes for two museum airplanes but most of her work is flying overhead in the bright blue skies of the world.

In 2008 Marsha decided to make a selvage edge quilt project and asked friends to send her their selvages. Later she wrote and published a pattern for that project, selling it to local quilt shops. A major quilt magazine purchased the rights to that first pattern for their holiday 2010 issue.

Marsha lives with her husband, Dave, on Brighton Airport in Michigan. They have two adult children, Bob and Sharon.